Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...falling U.S. birth rate, the U.S. Census Bureau sheepishly announced that 1941 will have the highest rate in a decade. In the first four months of 1941, about 20,000 more babies were born in the U.S. than in the first third of 1940. Dr. Halbert Dunn, chief vital statistician for the Census Bureau, began to talk of "an increase of about 7% in population per generation...
...remember and throw back at Mr. Stimson one passage in his letter (to Military Affairs Committee Chairmen) explaining last week's compromise. Said the Secretary of War: "The successful conduct of war depends directly on the controlled and coordinated application of all types of military power against vital objectives. This requires unity of command...
...Francisco, C.I.O. and A.F. of L. machinists, whose strike leaders had already thumbed their noses at Washington, politely but flatly rejected President Roosevelt's order to get back to work and end the long tie-up of $500.000.000 worth of vital naval building. Harvey Brown. A.F. of L. machinists' chief, left Washington to try once more to get strikers to go back. But there were plenty of indications that radical leadership was not yet squelched...
Integrated Wings. The merit of an air force that is part of the Navy with which it operates is that it is bound to cooperate with the fleet in action. The demerit of that relationship is that the development of the vital air arm may be retarded by seagoing officers who by habit think in terms of water rather than air fighting...
...Arabs from Iraq, was Aleppo, the old Hittite city with a 12th-Century Saracen citadel. There, two weeks ago, Nazis had begun air concentration. Latakia, famed for its dark and pungent tobacco and Syria's northernmost port, was another objective of this British-Arab column. Latakia is vital to the defense of 70-mile offshore Cyprus, which was bombed by Axis planes for 48 relentless hours last week...