Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritime Commission met the gigantic need for ships by multiplying an already fabulous assignment. Last week the Commission let contracts for 258 more merchant ships. Week before, the Commission upped its schedule to 20,000,000 vital tons, 1,800 cargo vessels, almost as big a tonnage as that of the entire pre-war British Fleet-to be built in two years...
Most serious bottleneck was among subcontractors. Many hulls slid down the ways, then waited months for subcontractors to deliver propulsion machinery, ventilating & electrical equipment, pumps, the dozen-and-one other vital innards of a modern cargo vessel. The supply of steel had West Coast builders worried, too. Said a spokesman for the Kaiser yard: "They don't realize back East how much we need that steel. They don't realize how fast we can turn out ships in Portland...
...Last week, while Nazi Munitions Minister Albert Speer, successor to the late Masterbuilder Major General Fritz Todt (TIME, Feb. 16), sped work on defenses to the north, the Norwegians were tripping and clipping him with sabotage. One highly effective means was the touching off of fires in plants housing vital Nazi war industries...
...become Minister of State for Great Britain's War Cabinet in the Middle East. It was the first time Britain had offered to take a Dominion statesman into the Home Government. Minister Casey was to replace Captain Oliver Lyttelton (Britain's new Minister of Production) in the vital liaison job in Cairo...
Last November the University listed 24 widely-varied combined fields having at least one concentrator each. Only four of them have more than five students, while the other 20 total exactly 38 concentrators. The larger quartet, nevertheless, are vital units of undergraduate instruction and Biochemical Sciences has 151 students and History and Literature...