Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same as a living body, the chemical conditions are different: "If you substitute oil for acid in the battery of your automobile, no current will pass." The electric eel can light a lamp; less visible, but none the less real are the currents which accompany all vital activity. In the same manner, "all the activities of the world stuff are accompanied by mental as well as material happenings...
Tucked away in New England is a small, 869-mile airline most U.S. citizens have never heard of. Yet last week it was a vital link between U.S. airlines and the war-boomed air routes across the North Atlantic (see map), it had several big transoceanic, cargo-carrying contracts with the Army's Air Transport Command, it had just landed a $1,500,000 V loan, it was growing so fast even its sponsors were dazzled. Its name: Northeast Airlines, Inc., which before the war supplied limited mail and passenger service between Boston and Moncton, N.B., with offshoots...
Most of the work Northeast does these days is a military secret. But it is no secret that the sturdy planes Northeast once shuttled between peaceful Yankee airports have since flown almost 750,000 miles over the stormy Atlantic, wings down with military and diplomatic passengers, tons of vital war cargo. Furthermore, thousands of England-bound bombers and fighters have checked through Northeast's airports before making the long over-water hop. And Northeast's efficient pilot school at Burlington, Vt. is already turning out scores of polished pilots monthly, will soon be expanded anew...
...vote reveals how strongly they are united in the midst of the war. When a weary people turns aside from its vigilant path on the arrival of Armistice II, they will be prepared to gather like vultures at the peace conference and suck the blood from any vital attempts to establish harmony among nations...
...Against economic pressure the Swiss know they can cut off supplies of valuable precision instruments which they are making for Germany; they can forbid the Axis use of vital railroads between Germany and Italy...