Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managers, at a crisis-time when ability to foresee the future was even more precious than aluminum. Very early he formed an axis with Leon Henderson, quietly backed him when Henderson's stock was selling at zero in March and April. For Nelson agreed with Henderson on a vital point, the quotation appearing under Henderson's TIME cover picture May 12: "By God, we should have learned a few things from the last war!" The two, more than any other two defense managers, had both hindsight & foresight, more nearly comprehended the problem's gigantic whole...
...Equally vital to the Royal Navy are Iran's oil wells and the refineries close to the Persian Gulf. Much of the 78,600,000 barrels of petroleum that they produce each year has been earmarked for the tanks of Britain's ships and planes. But reportedly since May not a barrel of oil has left the country...
...insure against air attacks being launched [against the U.S.'] from any of these bases . . . they must be kept under surveillance . . . and we must be ready to bomb such installations as soon as they are discovered. If the situation is sufficiently vital to require it, we must be prepared to seize these outlying bases to prevent their development by the enemy as bases of operation against...
...Caribbean bases are vital to U.S. defense in both oceans. While the Caribbean islands are Andy Andrews' ramparts, his citadel is The Ditch. For within their protective arc lies the Panama Canal-key to U.S. strategy in the Atlantic and the Pacific, certain target of any invader. Example: a sudden blow at the Canal from the Atlantic side when a big part of the U.S. Fleet is in the Atlantic-as it is nowadays-might prevent the rapid reinforcement of naval forces remaining in the Pacific...
Like Germany, Kotmk was defeated by Almat in 1918, and lost the "provinces" of Louisiana and Arkansas along with control of the vital Mississippi River waterway. But Kotmk had pulled herself up by her bootstraps, raised a powerful army, made up for her loss of the Louisiana oil fields by making new strikes in Texas. "The State had undertaken also a gigantic scheme of physical culture. . . . The birth rate in Kotmk had risen to a point where it was far in excess of more prosperous Almat. The vigor of the young people of Kotmk was so pronounced that medical authorities...