Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was a good story, but the facts, as they belatedly emerged, left it nothing but a cock-and-bull story-except for the tremendous fact that the Chancellor of Austria and the Chancellor of Germany did secretly meet and negotiated a most vital accord which they further agreed to rush into action with the greatest haste, before Adolf Hitler was due to address the Reichstag. Dr. Schuschnigg is one of Europe's hardest, smartest, most devoutly pious and most able statesmen. So far from the Nazis having been such fools as to try to crack him by third...
...housing. A year ago there was a serious shortage. We had unused productive resources ample to overcome the shortage. Yet all the major elements in housing costs advanced so sharply by the spring of 1937 as to kill a promising expansion of activity in an industry whose restoration is vital to continued recovery...
...Vienna of discreet Dr. Schuschnigg left much to be learned about what he and Herr Hitler had said to each" other, but Viennese this week thought the two Chancellors had laid the larger issue of merging Austria with Germany on the shelf to make a deal on lesser but vital points. It was said that Dr. Schuschnigg, an ardent Monarchist, had agreed to do nothing to better the chances of Archduke Otto to :obtain the Austrian Throne, while Herr Hitler agreed to force the Austrian Nazis again to curb their recently much increased activities (TIME, Feb. 7). On this point...
...subsidiaries, its function is wholly financial. In an industry where it is necessary to invest about $6 to do $1 worth of business (U. S. utilities last year had total gross sales of $2,200,000,000 from a fixed capital of $14,370,000,000) financing is vital. Therefore top utility men must be financiers primarily and Wall Street has logically become their headquarters...
With less build-up and ballyhoo than attends the opening of a third-rate motion picture, there started at the beginning of the term a series of twelve lectures of vital interest to all who appreciate the personal and social blessings of good health. Organized by Dr. Charles F. McKhann, the free, public addresses held at the Medical School every Sunday afternoon have already benefitted hundreds of men and women who weekly pack the School's largest amphitheatre, and have enlightened thousands of others through the medium of the daily press...