Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower had asked Congress to authorize a $3,864,410,000 foreign-aid program for fiscal 1958 and, in a vital and farseeing change from past policy, had asked authority to spread $2 billion in repayable loans to underdeveloped countries over a three-year period. This departure from year-to-year development programing would be more efficient, less expensive, and would encourage underdeveloped nations to set up sound, well-planned projects...
Ginza & Gardens. Tokyo's daily vital statistics include 340 births, 128 deaths, 256 weddings, 20 divorces and 6 suicides. Despite the fact that 400 new buildings are going up monthly, Tokyo is still suffering a staggering (400,000) housing shortage. The current price of land along the famed Ginza is $4,160 for four square yards. The prewar regulation limiting the number of nightclubs has long since been forgotten. Tokyo now has 35,000 bars, 2,000 brothels and 73,000 foreign civilian residents (including 10,000 Americans...
Besides the damage and loss of human lives, the government fretted over the earthquake's possible effect on the vital tourist trade. Although only 10% of U.S. tourists pulled out, the government tried to play down the earthquake. Official figures put the national death total at 67, and even when eleven more bodies were unearthed in Mexico City one day last week, the official count stayed the same. More likely fatality figures: about 200, all but 50 in Mexico City...
...ships would benefit too. Nuclear carriers, needing no fuel oil, can carry twice as much fuel for their brood of airplanes. Their nuclear boilers discharge no combustion gases, so their superstructures will be clear of the enormous ducts that clutter oil-burning carriers. This will leave more space for vital radar and airplane-handling equipment...
...railroad from Oran there have been continuous attacks by rebels for a year. In one night the line was cut by explosions in 45 places: it must be de-mined every morning before a train can leave. Fortnight ago rebels burned a power station at Laghouat, a vital point on an oilfield road...