Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clinched with Saudi Arabia the final details of the Dhahran air-base agreement worked out by President Eisenhower and King Saud during the King's visit to Washington (TIME, Feb. 18). The Saudis extended U.S. access to the vital strategic base, 1,000 miles south of Russia's Baku oilfields, for another five years. In return, the U.S. will give the Saudis some $50 million worth of services in the period by helping improve Saudi Arabian civil-aviation facilities, setting up or extending present U.S. training programs for the Saudi army, air force and navy...
These agencies exercise a great deal of relatively unchecked and only vaguely defined power affecting almost every facet of national economic life. The Federal Trades Commission, through its power to insure "fair methods of competition," exercises vital control over any firm engaging in commerce. The Federal Communications Commission, through its licensing requirements makes radio communication a privilege rather than a right. Altogether twenty-nine such agencies exist...
With the promotion of LeMay, the U.S. Air Force has solved an unusual personnel problem. A brilliant commander of the vital SAC and one of the military's finest organizers, Curt LeMay had held his post for eight years, too long for any soldier in one job, so long that he was beginning to appear the indispensable man in the Air Force's top field command. He had been thought of by some top Pentagon names as too tough a bull for the Washington china shop. Now at last on the Washington scene, LeMay will succeed General Thomas...
...Johns Hopkins has never lost sight of one vital truth, that the university is its faculty and that the power of promotion and appointment must rest with the faculty itself...
...Light for God. Beck was far more than a mere deployer of goon squads. Perhaps more than anyone else, he understood the immense power of the Teamsters in an industrial nation that transports its vital supplies on the wheels of some 10 million trucks. By refusing to deliver those supplies, the Teamsters could strangle business; by refusing to support other unions, the Teamsters could break strikes. Beck took the fullest advantage of his power. A genuine organizational genius, he looked south from his Seattle stronghold and saw how he could force his Teamsters on unorganized Los Angeles by threatening...