Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest Moscow official figures last week on F. Y. P. No. 2 show that Soviet production of coal, one of industry's most vital factors, was during the first nine months of 1937 not only definitely below the 1937 Plan figure but also below the production figure for the same period in 1936. The same was true of petroleum, copper and machine tools. On the broad economic front Soviet production is rising, as indeed Tsarist industrial production rose spectacularly in the decade before the Revolution, but Soviet fulfillment of the Plans as a "system of planned economy...
While the vacuum tube is one of the most vital tools of modern industry and science, with hundreds of millions of units now in operation, the tube has been developed slowly in efficiency because of the forbidding jungle of interlocking mathematical functions involved in its operation...
...blood now being acted on by gravity collects in the dependent parts and produces anemia of the brain." 2) "The weight of the body impedes breathing.'' 3) "Vital organs are crushed by the great weight." 4) "The unaccustomed warmth, especially if there is direct insolation [exposure to sun] induces heat stroke." 5) "The unaccustomed temperature interval between night and day gives rise to internal chills and probably pneumonia." 6) "The whales do not die because they are stranded; they are stranded because they are dying...
...have been worked into a harmonious pattern. Catchiest tune: Hi-Ho, as the dwarfs trudge home from work. Tunesmiths: Frank Churchill (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf) and Larry Morey. Technicolor is used with simpler and stronger effects than ever before in motion pictures, giving a vital, indelible reality to the fairyland locales...
...Copeland Bill) would segregate over-ocean flying from domestic aviation and put it under the Maritime Commission, as Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy suggested in his famed report (TIME, Nov. 22). For Pan American, which escaped the visitation of the Black Committee in the airmail investigation, the ultimate decision is vital. Under the Lee-McCarran Bill, the I.C.C. would give preference in granting certificates for overseas air service to applicants already holding the necessary foreign licenses and franchises-which Pan American's shrewd young President Juan Terry Trippe has forehandedly tied up on an exclusive basis in most countries where...