Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because these resolute Americans, controlling vital news outlets from the unique and unmanageable city-state of Shanghai, stand square in the road of Japanese conquest. For Japan must control the mind and morale of its subject peoples, must direct world-thinking the Japanese way, if it is ever to realize the dream of a "Greater East Asia"--domination of China, India, the Indo-Chinese peninsula, and all the East Indies including the Philippines...
...these days of crisis, the free press is more than ever a vital force in making our democracy a living, working success. Therefore, TIME is seeking, in this series of advertisements, to give all college students a clearer picture of what the press in general, and TIME in particular, is doing to keep the people of this nation safe, strong, free, and united...
First indication of the value to Japan of Vichy's surrender came when 45 Japanese planes, taking off from their new bases in French Indo-China, bombed Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, vital aviation and manufacturing centre, junction of both the Burma Road and Indo-China Railway. Japan was also in position to bomb supplies brought by motor truck over 600 tortuous miles of the Burma Road, if & when Britain reopens...
...production of U. S. oil States.) Moreover, wars, repeated invasions since early Roman times, and political oppression have kept the people of southeastern Europe an impoverished peasantry. Yet in their possession are the greatest agricultural riches of the Old World. Today, the permanent ownership of those riches is vital to Europe's big three dictators...
...Another is the foundries themselves, which are being rushed with Defense orders. Still another is the rundown old cotton & woolen textile industry, a large auto supplier which is getting huge orders from Army & Navy. (Already Washington is quietly discouraging Detroit from ordering its wool too far in advance.) Another, vital to makers of accessories, is the zinc industry, for which business is too good for comfort. Zincmen like to sell about 600,000 tons a year, at a tariff-protected price. Their present production rate is 748,000 tons, with another 41,000 tons of capacity...