Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last year was the best in its history. Wall Street and Toronto brokers estimate that 1943 net will be better than the $2.63 a share earned, but not paid to shareholders, in 1942. The 12,000-mile Canadian Pacific Air Line, which blankets most of the Dominion with vital north-south routes, but is barred from the lucrative transcontinental service by the Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines, carried 71,000 passengers and 11.5 million Ib. of mail and cargo. Earnings from C.P.-owned telegraph and express services, hotels, grain-and ore-carrying ships on the Great Lakes, and grain...
...statement of aim drew agreement from two other strategists who have an eye on China and the Philippines. Dour, realistic Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell promised to support Nimitz by "an aggressive Allied land and air offensive projected from the interior." But Infantryman Stilwell barbed his statement with caution that "vital China-based air operations cannot wait for penetration of the blockade by land...
Still other copies of TIME are part of the vital supplies that unarmed, unescorted transport planes carry across Zero-infested Burma and over 17,000-ft. Himalayan passes to Kunming in China. These copies vault the top of the world and pass over "the worst stretch of country covered by any of the world's farflung war transport operations" to reach General Claire Chennault and his airmen. And every week 50 more copies reach key Chinese leaders via TIME Correspondent Teddy White in Chungking...
...make and mesh their own rules. Navy gun crews had to be taught how to fire at beaches instead of at ships; marines had to learn how to scamper down rope cargo nets, what to do once they had waded ashore. They learned the tedious but vital facts of combat loading...
...accord's importance lay in its implication: Britain admitted the right of the De Gaulle regime to act with authority not only for the French Empire but for the homeland. Military necessity made the admission inevitable. As leader of the second-greatest colonial empire, holder of vital bases, wielder of an army of 400,000 and link to Europe's biggest resistance group, the Algiers government had to play a key part in the coming Allied invasion. Plans were well advanced. The Committee would send an army into France, pay for relief supplies, devise a currency, probably administer...