Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekend pounce, 32 men & women were in jail. Among the captives, who looked like characters out of a Hitchcock thriller, were: a draftsman who had for several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said by Hoover to be head...
...fire; industrial Japan is ripe for the killing; one bomber to China is the equal of ten to Britain and every bombing of Japan would make the backdoor of the British Empire that much more secure. Urgent too was the Chinese need for transport planes to haul quickly needed vital materials from an Indian railhead to interior points. But the British out-begged them...
Tough Job. As Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must fight two wars: 1) the far-flung military and naval campaigns of World War II; 2) the vital economic battle at home to support 46,000,000 people while stoking the insatiable maw of Britain's military machine. In the fighting, the Empire seems to be doing reasonably well, considering its shortage of trained men and of material. The home front is different...
...Under the new Priorities Bill the President has the unprecedented power to do all but one of these: 1. Grant absolute priority to all Government agency contracts deemed vital to defense...
...number one headache to national defense is the failure of OPM's chiefs to avoid the serious production shortage of vital: 1. Rubber