Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then back to his job of opening mail (which takes 87% of his budget) went calm Byron Price, knowing full well his work was a criminal offense in peacetime, un-American at any time, a vital necessity in wartime...
...Tunisian campaign was still at a stalemate (see below), but General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery continued to roll along the flat and ugly coast. Transport planes helped move up his vast and vital supplies. Last week, when his Eighth Army marched under the ludicrous triumphal Marble Arch near El Aghéila, one of several which Mussolini had erected along his African highway, he was farther west than any British commander had ever been before in the long, seesaw African campaign...
...other battles were being fought which would in the end settle the Tunisian campaign. These were battles to control the sea and the sky and destroy the enemy's vital arteries...
...Every day some new island in the Pacific pops up like a volcanic explosion and the Navy says we must have troops there. Then they take another island and say we must have troops there. They are right. In every case it is vital to the security of our communications and to the progress of our advance...
This rush of war work has put a crimp in Northeast's purely domestic operations. The line operates only a few Douglas transports, has canceled all but the most vital civilian service. But Sam Solomon is unworried-in war work his pilots and crews are getting flying experience which will be invaluable when the war is over and the scrap for worldwide air routes begins. Meanwhile Northeast prospers: earnings for the nine months ended Sept. 30 were roughly $125,000-almost as much as total operating revenues...