Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltic as a German supply line to the northern front; 2) clear direct communications to Finland; 3) penetrate the Russian right flank, making the menace to Moscow even graver than last year's; 4) prepare for supplying and manning a major offensive to cut Russia's vital, northern supply line via Murmansk...
...subnormal profits statements for years, turned over a new leaf last week. It installed young Justin W. Dart, 34, as vice president and director and made him president of its Liggett Drug Co. subsidiary, largest U.S. chain of retail drugstores. Liggett has been one of United's vital assets but an unsatisfactory earner. Dart's job is to do something about...
...owned stores of the Liggett chain, some 10,000 "Rexall" independents. The grandiose Drug, Inc. merger contained many a great manufacturing name -Vick Chemical, Sterling Products (Bayer's Aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria), Life Savers, Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Rubberset brushes, Ipana). But the vital retail end limped almost from the start. Long-term leases put Liggett into bankruptcy in March 1933. Thereupon the big manufacturers, long restless and dissatisfied, un-merged the combine and each went its own way. Enough United stock remained in manufacturing hands, however, to give them a finger in United...
...National Academy of Sciences, the senate of U.S. science, called off its annual meeting for 1942. Reason: most of its members are too busy with vital wartime research; and the closely guarded Academy Building, close to the War and Navy Departments in Washington, is overcrowded with military projects...
Before the tutorial system is contracted to fit its staff, the reasons most of the Faculty cannot help the system through the war emergency should be made clear. Aside from vital war work or lack of funds there is no reason. A Student Council committee last year suggested a number of shots in the system's financial arm. One of them, deemphasis on spending for graduate schools in favor of the college, is taking place without any planning. As graduate students go off to war, professors and Lehman Hall both need worry less about these schools. Undergraduate tutorial in groups...