Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start. Said the President: "Selfish interests will tell you that I am cloaking this great project in national defense in order to gain an objective which has always been dear to me. But I tell you that it has always been dear to me because I recognize its vital interest to the people in peace and in war. . . . Had this project been started in 1934, as we urged, it would now be complete and occupying a place . . . among the great national-defense assets of this continent...
Rather than force the British into depleting their dollar resources in America, Washington has found a solution by loaning money through the Export -Import Bank to the Argentine. Actually the loan does three things. It gives the Argentine credits in the United States with which to buy their vital food necessities. Lastly, it is another step to prevent the South American countries from being forced into the Argentine is a shrewd move by Washington in the interests of Hemisphere Defense and financial aid to Britain...
...that booming, under-equipped U. S. airlines hoped by mid-1942 to double the 322 passenger planes now in service. Secretary Stimson told the airlines and their manufacturers to forget that program, count themselves lucky if they can continue their rate of replacement. Said Henry Stimson: "Which is more vital to the nation right now-increased military and naval strength in the air or increased business for the commercial airlines...
...Hitler's "new order" on winter-chilled Norway. Suddenly there were terrible reverberations in the western mountains, and whole mountainsides, loosened by rain and snow, roared down into the valleys. Masses of mud and rock clogged roads and highways, smashed houses and bridges, snapped telephone poles, blocked the vital Oslo-Bergen railway at ten different places...
...most vital problem was one of logistics-getting hundreds of trucks full of food and ammunition daily over hundreds of miles of tortuous mountain roads to supply the over-extended forces. Next he had to bring over from Italy whole new armies to replace the beaten Ninth Army in the north and the newly arrived but already disorganized Eleventh Army in the south. Meantime, Greek and British bombers hammered at the landing places, rendered Valona and Durazzo "almost useless" in the wake of the new arrivals, threatened to cut off their supplies and redouble General Soddu's problem. British...