Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to smooth over the "Mediterranean relations" of Italy and France-i.e. Italy's claim to naval parity with France which nearly wrecked the London Conference (TIME. Jan. 27 to April 28), and the French demand that Italian emigrants to Tunis become French citizens. If such vital matters were indeed up for secret discussion before the League convened last week, Signore Grandi was certainly justified in quitting the windy Assembly discussions to report to Dictator Mussolini...
...Germany the total number of votes cast is vital. For every 60,000 ballots cast one deputy goes to the Reichstag. Last week the turnout was so large (c. 35,790,000 against 25,379,045 at the last election in 1928) that the new chamber will have some 575 seats, instead...
...coronation of Carol, buck-toothed King of Rumania, was suddenly and definitely postponed last week from Oct. 15 to an indefinite date in the spring of 1931. Every Rumanian knew the reason. Patient, hazel-eyed Queen Helen, whose presence at the coronation is vital if Carol is to retain any of his present popularity in Rumania, suddenly decided that reconciliation with the man who deserted her five years ago to elope to France with a red-headed Jewess was more than she could stomach. She fled to Mamaia with her son Prince Mihai for a vacation in the clean fresh...
...Mile. Vital to railroaders, important to all men of business, is a figure reported last week by the Bureau of Railway Economics: Class I railroads handled freight traffic amounting to 34,419.086,000 net ton miles this June, a drop of 6,320,943,000 as against June 1929. A "net ton mile" is accomplished every time one ton of freight is carried one mile. The June drop in ton miles was 15.5% compared to 1929, while the six-month average was only 11% under...
...methods of big business to the art of invention. His is the idea and the plan of work, but the execution is for his subordinates, who never question his drawings. In 24 hours he drew a complete concrete factory so accurately and imaginatively that were it built today no vital changes would be made. The ingenuity with which he overcame early lack of materials is prodigious. While building the first commercial electric light plant he was forced to invent switches, cables, fuses, even the friction tape for splices. So sincere, so acquisitive is the admiration of Author Ford...