Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crossroads. Vital life lines lead to and through the Indian Ocean. The Germans and the Japanese have not yet choked off those lines, but they are squeezing hard...
Revenge Element Vital...
...complete agreement between neutral Portugal and nonbelligerent, pro-Axis Spain. Both want to suffer as little damage as possible from the shocks and tremors of World War II. But Spain surrounds-and covets-the British fortress of Gibraltar, and Portugal's coastline and islands are fast becoming vital in the Battle of the Atlantic. It was, therefore, hard to believe that Spain and Portugal could long enjoy their neutral never-never land...
...What vital interests of the United States can Japan threaten? She cannot attack us. That is a military impossibility. Even our base at Hawaii is beyond the effective striking power of her fleet...
Dolomite and Kilowatt. To get more U.S. manganese, alumina, magnesium, chromium, vanadium and phosphates-all scarce and all vital- Ickes had fairly specific immediate plans. He knows of 2,683,000 tons of recoverable manganese hidden in small ore bodies; eight mills and three hydrometallurgical plants could turn it into a four years' supply within five years. The Bureau of Mines has a two-stage process for getting alumina from a variety of domestic clays, shales and feldspars; if WPB would specify this process in future alumina plants instead of the commercial Bayer process, it would save the long...