Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Ickes, Petroleum Administrator, then buttered up Jeffers but dripped bile on Nelson and WPB. The priority which Nelson should not have granted had cost 4,413,000 barrels of 100-octane, had thrown the whole gasoline program out of balance, said Ickes. WPB had permitted vital parts to be hoarded while plants lay idle for their lack. WPB's new scheduling program was not working...
...investigating. Senator Gillette posed some pregnant questions: "Is there any truth to charges that the War Department has built muni tions plants which are not in use? Was WPB presented with, or has it passed on the high-octane production program which is alleged to be so vital...
...Precision bombing by American planes has blasted vital targets in enemy-occupied Europe and in the Mediterranean area and has won clear-cut victories in the Pacific. . . . All types of American fighter planes have shot out of the skies the best interceptors both Germany and Japan have put against them...
...press Nelson indicated that Arthur Whiteside's job would not be concerned with food, rubber, oil or transportation, which already have their own czars. Yet all these vital areas of the economy are intimately connected with civilian supply. Newsmen also remembered that, only a short time ago, Nelson had written to Jimmy Byrnes to suggest that Byrnes take the civilian-supply job off WPB's hands...
Familiar with other phases of New York's well-publicized civilian defense scheme, many a citizen has asked such questions about the one missing but vital detail. Finally they got an answer. New York City's Commissioner of Hospitals Edward M. Bernecker revealed his gigantic preparations in a speech before a United Hospital Fund conference...