Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ministries, creating 105 regional enclaves, which the 105 bosses have tried to remake into self-contained little kingdoms. Plants dependent on outside supplies found them hard to get. In Tashkent, for example, the Voroshilov farm machinery works had to lay off workers for two months when shipments of vital castings from the Stalingrad tractor works failed to appear. Last week the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, worried by a "chain reaction" that is growing "like an avalanche." published a decree imposing fines and jail terms up to three years for "parochial" administrators who unpatriotically lag on delivery to other districts...
...week's end, as the reciprocal-trade program moved toward the House floor, leaders of both parties were industriously counting House noses -and the future of liberalized foreign trade as a vital U.S. answer to Communist economic aggression hung in the balance...
...Pacific Railway Co. finally wrested an admission from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen that a fireman has no useful function on an oil-fired diesel locomotive. To establish the principle, the C.P.R. proposed to remove firemen from yard and freight diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched in dismay as their fellow rail workers coolly crossed picket lines and kept the trains running on time. After three days, the firemen blew a whistle on the strike. The ailing...
While everyone realizes that the economic good health of such nations is vital to the West, the way to achieve it is difficult. One suggestion is for a series of international "commodity agreements" to stabilize prices and production. But so far, the U.S. has shied away because such pacts would be little more than worldwide price-fixing cartels that would prove no more workable than the U.S. farm price-support program. Another idea is for the U.S. and other buyer nations to stockpile raw materials from underdeveloped nations. But since the U.S. already has full stockpiles of most commodities...
...death of a University employee two years ago, a compensation ruling by the Industrial Accident Board, and a long series of legal appeals are the background for a pending Massachusetts Supreme Court decision which may have "a vital effect" on employment policies both at the University and elsewhere in the Commonwealth...