Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's nationalization of silver as he stepped aboard an airplane at Shanghai. Said Dr. Kung: "We also would like to nationalize silver but for China this is impossible because our Government is hampered by extraterritorial treaties. We do not want the price to skyrocket, for silver is vital to our national life...
...become its No. 1 comedienne. In The Girl from Missouri, written by Anita Loos & John Emerson, Lionel Barrymore wiggles his eyebrows as skillfully as ever, and Franchot Tone, as usual, gives an ingratiatingly juvenile performance. But it is the presence of Jean Harlow that supplies the picture with its vital humor. Good shot: Eadie jumping off the Paige yacht when she learns that the youngster she mistook for a bookkeeper...
When Adolf Hitler seized power Germany's trade balance had been favorable for three years and thus her vital imports were more than paid for by the proceeds of her exports. While this lasted the Fatherland could be considered economically afloat, no matter how deeply Germany might mire herself in the morass of moratoriums declared by blunt, bluff Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank...
James Thurber, whom FORTUNE describes as follows: "Thurber is madder than White. His prose is more vital, has an earthy quality refreshing in The New Yorker. Born in Columbus (39 years ago) he graduated from Ohio State University. There he is remembered as a long, lean, funny-looking grind who sat around the library all day with his hair hanging in his eyes...
...date no type of airplane has been developed capable of crossing the Atlantic or Pacific with an effective military load, attacking successfully our vital areas, and returning to its base. . . . The 'Air invasion of the U. S.' and the 'Air defense of the U. S.' are conceptions of those who fail to realize the inherent limitations of aviation and to consider ocean barriers." For the so-called Mitchell plan of unification of the Army & Navy air forces under a separate air department the committee had scant sympathy. Such a plan "would be a serious error, jeopardize...