Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of WPB's vital Iron & Steel Branch-the disgusted resignation of whose boss, big Reese Taylor (TIME, Sept. 7), helped precipitate Nelson's action-he picked Hiland Garfield Batcheller, head of small but potent Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp...
...company that is relatively small in the steel industry but one of the biggest companies in the realm of alloy steel. As an expert in alloy steelmaking he is invaluable, for in the steel bottleneck the real choke is in alloy steels (for armor plate and many a vital part in war machines). The Government now wishes that it had taken his advice two years ago, when he foresaw the raw-material shortages now plaguing the U.S. Then he urged stocking up on nickel, chrome and tungsten, suggested substitution of molybdenum for tungsten alloys, and other steps which, had they...
...units. The tactics were good, as witnessed by the slowness of the German advance. But they were not enough to halt Marshal Fedor von Bock's creep through smashed, smoking ruins toward the heart of Stalingrad. As a new week started the Germans claimed they had reached a vital harbor section of the city which stretched 25 miles along the Volga bend; they won, lost, then won again a hill from which they shelled the heart of bomb-beaten Stalingrad...
...Africa's strategic potentialities were almost untouched. Now airfields pock equatorial jungle and flinty desert, hop-stops for U.S. planes ferried across the South Atlantic bound for Egypt and the Middle East. Gun snouts poke out of many an African harbor protecting supply bases and ports where vital convoys collect. U.S., British, Free French and Belgian officials shuttle across the once dark continent that is dark no longer...
...World War II. The U.S. has used shrewdness, good works and good will to improve its Central American relations. No longer merely a place where bananas come from, Central America has great strategic importance, not only for naval and air bases but as the only land bridge to the vital Panama Canal. More than anything else in past history, the Pan American Highway, being rushed to completion at a cost of $80,000,000 in Central America alone, has brought the republics together. Where present roads and rails run east and west from ocean to ocean, the new highway will...