Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing something for the people of the United States, we are told that we must . . . not waste the people's money." After some hours of this, Florida's Spessard Holland suggested that the Senate vote down the building "quietly and quickly" and then "go on to more vital business of the nation." The Senate...
...bloody, muddy Korea, Douglas MacArthur and his field commander, Major General William F. Dean, had to hold a line somewhere between the battle zone and the southern supply port of Pusan. It seemed vital to hold the Sochon-Taejon-Taegu-Pusan railroad (see map)-double-tracked from Pusan to Taejon, the U.S. field headquarters-not only to feed the U.S. build-up in men and weapons but for lateral mobility behind the defense line. In the western sector, focus of last week's bloodiest fighting, Taejon and the rail line had a fine natural defense in front of them...
...Kremlin lost Formosa; and it had an unexpected fight on its hands in Korea. While serious, the Kremlin's mistake was not vital. The U.S.S.R.'s stooges might still overrun South Korea, in which case the U.S. would lose much new-found face in Asia. And if the North Koreans were beaten, what? The main elements of Communist power would still be intact, ready to fight another...
...greatest worrying aloud about vital industrial materials was over rubber. To make up for the shortage in natural rubber the Government was already producing about 35,000 tons of synthetic rubber a month in its plants. But Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s Chairman P. W. Litchfield last week said that the U.S. should reopen its other synthetic-rubber plants, boost production to 50,000 tons a month, and build up a stockpile of at least 200,000 tons. Warned Litchfield: "With no stockpile of synthetic rubber, our national security is placed in greater statistical jeopardy than just prior...
...chance in years to make a fast buck-nor so many speculators trying to make it. Natural rubber began getting scarce last winter just as booming auto production stepped up the demand for tires. Synthetic rubber production slumped as the coal strike cut the supply of styrene, a vital coal-tar derivative...