Word: vitalize
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Civilians have referred to the ski or mountain troops indiscriminately without really understanding the nature of the duties involved, said the War Service Information Office yesterday. Although skiing ability is not a vital prerequisite for a mountain trooper, it would prove extremely useful since a large part of his time will be spent on skis, whether engaged in 13 weeks' basic training in the Mountain Training Area in the West, or on active service in Alaska and elsewhere...
These courses, meeting for four hours every Saturday morning for fifteen weeks, are still open to teachers who wish to equip themselves to train students in these vital war studies, and although a preliminary meeting took place on January 9, registration will not close until this Saturday. No tuition will be charged. This is part of the war training program of the Common wealth of Massachusetts Department of Education, according to the Graduate School...
That startling statistic is not startling to the operators of most U.S. war plants -it is too typical. In Detroit on the day after Christmas one large auto plant engaged in vital war production had 3,000 welders A.W.O.L., which cut production 70%; in California 11,000 Douglas Aircraft workers (12% of the total payroll) stayed home. In one recent month Douglas lost 760,164 man-hours-enough to build 41 attack bombers. In Seattle all last year, one worker in every twelve stayed away from Associated Shipbuilders' yards. From coast to coast the sickening story was repeated...
...Rewards. However vital to the war effort, Donald Roebling is not making a penny from his Alligators. He turned the whole invention over to the Government, waved aside all commissions, even got Food Machinery to cut its contract price. To Donald this is his contribution to the war and he is glad to make...
...announcing this good news last week Mr. Jeffers also made clear that it was nothing to brag about. The synthetic-rubber program, he admitted, is about 30 days behind schedule because both aviation gasoline and naval escort vessel production have stood ahead of it in the lineup for vital instruments, rectifiers, forgings, etc. And the U.S. cannot afford the loss of those 30 days with its military rubber supplies dwindling...