Word: virtualization
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...opening the case, Chancellor Brüning could, under Article 48 of the German Constitution, make himself virtual dictator of the Reich for a period of three months which must pass before a new Reichstag could be elected and assembled. Crack! went the invisible Hindenburg whip and the Reichstag deputies in their confusion and buzzing excitement resembled an arena-full of balky bulls...
...virtual retirement of Cineman Fox indicated the prompt abandonment of a series of State and Federal suits which for many weeks had engaged the attention of a considerable portion of Manhattan's Bench and Bar. The most bitter part of this litigation had centred about an agreement signed on Dec. 3, 1929. At this time Mr. Fox, who during 1929 had spent some $90,000,000 in purchasing control of Loew's, Inc., and of the Gaumont chain of British cinema houses, and whom the collapse of the stockmarket had left in debt to the extent of about...
...burdened like Mother Britain with a disheartening War debt, pert Daughter Ireland has been stepping out for Prosperity. The business event of the year was of course the virtual completion of President Cosgrave's stupendous German-engineered project for hydroelectrification of the oft sung and storied River Shannon (TIME, Aug. 5). But The Commercial supplies many a significant fact about what has happened since Henry Ford changed his mind about "abandoning Ireland...
With such a large percentage of business going to independents, it is obvious that, contrary to popular opinion, A. T. & T. has no complete monopoly in the total telephone business. However, since the independents are scattered, A. T. & T. has a virtual monopoly on long distance calls. Where a toll call travels over both the wires of an independent and a Bell company the charge is prorated according to the number of miles used...
...Zealand officials, sent as administrators to Samoa, raised their own salaries, emptied the Treasury, set up a virtual monopoly in copra. For paying the natives a higher price for copra than the New Zealand Syndicate, one J. Nelson, millionaire South Sea trader, operator of So trading stations, was hustled aboard a steamer, deported from Samoa...