Word: virtualization
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...virtual ban on steel for rebuilding blitzed British cities...
...Vichy government sentenced him to ten years in jail for conducting a virtual one-man war against German occupation. U.S. and British generals who served with him in Italy and France after his escape stood in constant awe, and De Lattre made sure that they continued to do so. Once he chewed out General Marshall himself because of a delayed shipment of supplies. Years later, informed that Marshall had forgotten the incident, De Lattre remarked: "Nonsense! The general is polite. Nobody whom I have castigated ever forgets...
...history." The second is the danger that excessive defense demands will undermine liberties within the U.S. and lead to socialism. Politically this happens when the President assumes emergency powers which cut across the rights of Congress and individuals. Economically it happens when private enterprise is taxed into virtual Government control. The maximum budget the U.S. can safely stand, says Taft in capital letters, is "ABOUT 75 BILLION
...week, Publisher Newhouse stopped long enough in Hoboken to buy the sickly Jersey Observer and merge it with his Journal in adjoining Jersey City. The Observer, which cost him a little more than $1,000,000, will give his Journal a combined circulation of almost 100,000 and a virtual evening-paper monopoly in teeming (pop. 646,000), industrial Hudson County...
...civil rights took care of that. Harassed by police, barred from access to Dress and radio, the opposition was alowed only to hold open-air meetings. Balbin, the leading anti-Peronista, was arrested twice during the campaign for 'disrespect" to the President. To top things off, Peron imposed virtual martial law after last September's abortive army revolt. This lasted throughout the campaign, and was lifted only on election...