Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bookkeeper's apprentice. When revolution swept Mexico, he joined the army and served eight years as a paymaster and paperwork man for generals. After the revolution, he served 13 years as a government clerk, rising finally to the job of chief of the government's vital statistics department. Even in those low-paid years he lived on his salary. Once, when the offer of a bribe came his way, he said: "I think you have made a mistake. You have tried the wrong...
...steel, aluminum, rubber industries, etc., go to the Federal Government to develop and build their plants . . . No, we took our own capital or by private borrowing developed our properties so that we supplied all the coal, with no shortages, that our country needed . . . But the main and vital thing your article forgot was this: it is not so vital that coal is being produced and sold below the cost of production; the important thing is that by destructive competition millions of tons of coal are annually being destroyed...
...William McLintock, head of Britain's famous Thomson, McLintock firm, soon drafted the "drifter" as his protégé, moved him rapidly up to a partner. During World War II, Morison ran the Ministry of Supply's financial affairs and served on the vital War Damage Commission, which decided how much should be paid to thousands of blitzed British property owners. He was knighted for his work...
...wants to force trucks off U.S. roads, since they carry 15% of the nation's freight, and are a vital part of the economy. But even some truckers realize that it is time for the trucking industry to face the fact that its own future lies in a constructive approach to the highway problem. Unless the truckers do, U.S. motorists, who far outnumber the truckers, may well insist on even tighter regulations than now bind the railroads...
...Vital India. Such is the spacious plan of Pearl Buck's new novel, which, like most of her works, coolly takes a continent for its province. But her theme is even wider than her scheme-so wide, in act, that better novelists would find it hard to cover. Intricate and twofold, it ries on the one hand to show the great gap that divides American and Indian understanding and, on the other, how religious zeal and hard experience affect not only this gap, but the Americans and Indians who try to bridge...