Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does when they are confronted with wage increases. I called it a bugaboo because inflation does not begin until production capacity, through a shortage of machines, raw materials or workers, cannot meet increased demands." He declared, overlooking the fact that there are already serious shortages in several vital industries: "We are a long way from that point." Said the colonel finally: "Labor must be dealt with in good faith if we are to enter this dangerous New Era with national unity...
Whether Knudsenhillman would get along with himself, no man knew. That Knudsen & Hillman should work well together was a vital national necessity. Whether they could was another matter. That it was the easy way to mollify both industry and labor was plain to see. The inference of the President's act was that, although the nation's defense cried out for a boss who would have the confidence of both capital and labor, there was not a single man who could fill the bill. Perhaps such a man would emerge later, forced up by the pressure of events...
...which had long been silent, rang gladly one day last week. Klisura had been captured. This was the first important Greek accomplishment since the taking of Argirocastro on Dec. 9. The Italians had set up a defense sector hinged on Tepeleni and Klisura. Tepeleni blocked the road to the vital port of Valona, Klisura the road to Berat, northeast of Valona. Having broken through at Klisura, having driven the Italians from "naturally formidable" mountain positions, the Greeks pressed...
...vital statistics of newspaper publishing in 1940 last week became available...
Hitler during the year conquered five nations by arms-among them France, his most powerful opponent on the Continent-and subjugated part of the Balkans by threats. His conquests were on a par with those of Napoleon Bonaparte. But in one vital respect he failed. He did not master Britain, as scheduled, before the summer was out. He did not bring the war to a victorious conclusion. At year's end he had a tiring people at home, and a war abroad, a war which, unless he could end it swiftly, might ultimately prove Germany's undoing...