Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rump. Except for two shortages-manganese and mercury-Russia's great rump is sufficiently stocked in all vital resources. The Kuznetsk Basin has five times as great coal reserves as the Donets Basin, now in German hands. Oil fields in the plains adjoining the Urals have been developed to the point where they could partially compensate for the loss of Baku. The area should not lack water power: on the Angara River the biggest power dam in the world is being built. Even without the good black earth of the Ukraine, Russia could be agriculturally self-sufficient...
...drug, a thousand times as powerful as sulfanilamide, excited members of the American College of Surgeons, who met in Boston for some clinical shoptalk last week. Other topics that absorbed the 3,000 visitors were the old problem of toughening up healing wounds, the vital question of surgery in Britain...
United and Sperry were agreed on the need for a cushion, but they disagreed on a vital point: United included its $4,000,000 reserve in "cost of sales" (i.e., deducted it before figuring taxes); Sperry pessimistically figured its taxes first. If the Treasury should rule in favor of United, these rainy-day fiscal policies may become much more popular...
Magnesium is everywhere. It is a vital ingredient of chlorophyll, and without it leaves would not be green. Every cubic mile of sea water contains 5,700,000 tons of it. Whole mountains of its ores lie among the Austrian Alps, the southern Appalachians, the Sierra Nevada. The far Western States are strewn with it; salt lakes are saturated with it. But until aviation came along, nobody wanted...
Landis pointed out that the strategic military importance of New England makes the question of local civilian defense a vital one. Arsenals at Water-town and Springfield, and important manufacturing centres elsewhere in this area would make the northeastern states an inviting target for enemy attacks. As a result, it is to the best interest of the nation that every preparation be made for an all-out civilian defense effort, which will require cooperation from every segment of the population...