Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the materials used in making aluminum is found in the Saguenay valley. But the water racing out of Lake St. John provides the most vital of all resources needed in the industry: electric power. The urgent river has been thrice dammed to drive generators which produce...
...weapons for secret warfare exist. That I am competent to assure you . . . In a secret war the country under attack might wither as a nation, without knowing it had even been sick . . . Those who watch vital statistics might discover a suspicious increase in infant mortality-for the year ending a year ago. New pests would appear that survived the usual sprays. Cattle would develop diseases the county agents had never seen...
...Vital Statistics. Age: 64 (born March 22, 1884, in a modest frame house in Grand Rapids). Ancestry: His father, Aaron Vandenberg, was of Dutch descent; his mother, Alpha Hendrick, of English. His father, a native of New York, moved to Michigan in 1878, where he went into the harness-making business. His elder half-brother Collins is the father of General Hoyt Vandenberg, new Air Force chief of staff. Educated: Grand Rapids grade and high schools, one year at the University of Michigan (1901-02). Married: in 1907 to Elizabeth Watson of Grand Rapids, who died...
...sunny sidewalk outside a bookstore on Hollywood's North Vermont Avenue, a legless pencil peddler had set up his pitch. A pretty young woman knelt down beside him and began to ask him questions. Did he think Communists should be barred from jobs in vital U.S. industries? In a muddy Italian accent the peddler replied that he knew nothing about Communists, but he did know that he was paying too much for his $40-a-month room. Did he know who John L. Lewis was? That was easier. "Eez a boxer. A fighter...
...whole, to become truly creative artists but rather have been content, in the main, to remain little more than glassblowers, huffing and puffing and blowing up slender ideas-their own or others' -into some sort of shape for the screen. What has happened to fresh; honest, vital, original writing for the screen...