Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonnage available to supply Britain's vital needs was cut, in effect, by various demands and limitations to perhaps 20,800,000 tons. The additional limitations of convoy operation further reduced the effective total to some 9,600,000 tons. Result: the loss of every ship sunk on the Atlantic run was doubly felt by the Allies...
...believe that Germany will lose the war. But they insist that Finland must resist to the last, hoping that Russia will be so weak at the end that Finland can hold the territories which the Russians seized in 1940. The Finns refuse to believe that these territories-as vital to Russian security as they are dear to the Finns-would ever be theirs by a voluntary settlement...
...Devers, Chief of the U.S. Armored Force, like any other sound soldier, sees no reflection on his tanks, only the result of the ebb & flow of battle doctrine. Said he: "While capable of smashing through the severest obstacle, [the armored division's] most important use is against vital enemy rear areas . . . air, armor, artillery and infantry must be properly combined and their individual capabilities exploited. ... The tank, like the battleship and the airplane, is merely a means of carrying fire power to the enemy...
Skyrocketing prices, a shrunken supply and the furious wartime demand for used cars has OPA looking down the barrel of another gun. Used cars are a vital reserve in the nation's wire-taut transportation system. That reserve is dissolving swiftly, under the attack of a demand that has already forced prices up an estimated 160 to 180% (based on prewar depreciation figures...
...whose color perception evolved as a refinement of seeing, likewise developed an intelligence which made it less vital for him to distinguish colors. But the ability to see colors is still the product of harsh necessity for some animals...