Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because of the coal shortage and a great drought all through 1939, electric power was so acutely inadequate that in some places (notably industrial Osaka) a 30% cut in consumption was ordered. Osaka was under virtual blackout. Most light industries were entirely shut down, and even war industries were last week being rationed...
Louisville, Ky. is a one-paper town. Barry Bingham's proud old Courier-Jour nal (with its evening edition, the Times) constitutes a virtual news monopoly in the middle Ohio Valley: it has no serious competitor nearer than Cincinnati. Both papers are healthy, with circulations (Courier-Journal, 109,361; Times, 121,854) that are still growing...
...last couple of minutes, with Hulse banished for board checking Soup Campbell, the Green pushed over their last two goals for the 8 to 3 victory. Those scores were virtual gifts, because the desperate Hoddermen had to forget, about defensive play...
...three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were quietly informed that hereafter they must look to Moscow rather than to Berlin. They all signed "mutual assistance" pacts making them virtual protectorates of the Soviet Union...