Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week World War II grinds into its fifth year.* A vast, vital difference sets this September apart from the four preceding Septembers. For the United Nations it is the difference between defeat and victory. Men no longer ask: Where will the Axis strike? Now the question is: Where will the Allies strike...
...these war production courses started last February, 195 executives averaging 40 years in age and $7000 in salary have attended the two sessions. Several of the men are earning $20,000 annually as key men in war industries and have been given special leave of absence for this vital training...
...ship builders to "take immediate steps to reduce total employment," unofficially asked them to cut their payrolls by about 14,000 (14%) by mid-September. Reason: even Boeing's Flying Fortress production is lagging for lack of some 9,000 workers (TIME, Aug. 2); the Northwest's vital lumber and food processing industries are also gravely understaffed...
...Gained more than 20 airfields and at least four first-rate ports (Catania, Syracuse, Palermo, Trapani). Thereby they won firm control of the Mediterranean, held vital springboards for further assault on Europe...
...Times are hard. . . . [Italy] could have remained outside the struggle. As a neutral, she probably would have had great financial and commercial advantages. But Italy . . . had proclaimed her vital rights and placed before the conscience of the world her problems of expansion, raw materials and production. To have confined herself to a neutrality based on monetary gain would have been a definite renunciation of a century-old goal. That was the reason why we launched ourselves ardently into the battle...