Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dutch asked only for light naval craft: destroyers, light cruisers and submarines. Any newsreader could note the effectiveness of the small U.S. Asiatic Fleet (with its supporting aircraft) in blasting Japanese convoys in the Strait of Macassar. He could note, too, the depressing fact that the Jap first approached vital Amboina with a piddling naval escort, got little or no naval opposition. Three cruisers, a dozen destroyers, even one aircraft carrier, would bolster U.S. and Dutch naval strength in the Indies, would help to stop the Jap short of Java...
...Case for Secrecy in vital matters is simple, convincing, unquestioned by the U.S. press. Is there a further case for an absolute, rigid, blanket policy of secrecy, extending to facts which on their face do not seem vital, in many instances have been already printed? The Army & Navy hold that there is such a case...
...prodigally democratic U.S. had very few real secrets left to keep when it went to war. Many, various and almost uncontrollable were the channels through which U.S. enemies could get vital wartime facts (insurance reports, sometimes to offices abroad, requiring detailed data on experimental aircraft, ships, etc.; Patent Office reports, available to all comers at 10? per copy; Congressional hearings, secret and unsecret, from which waves of gossip flowed to every legation and foreign listening post in Washington...
...visit the U.S., their pilots will need to know a very few, simple facts about their objectives. By actual experiment, a group of Army officers in Washington demonstrated that from pre-war stories, pictures, advertisements in the U.S. press, they could compile a frighteningly complete dossier on nearly every vital military objective...
Even when thus counteracted, torque is bothersome because displaced ailerons and rudders are not as efficient or powerful as controls in normal position. Contrarotating propellers develop two self-canceling torques and, in pursuit planes, increase the maneuverability vital in dogfighting...