Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...launch the War. Last week it waited for a blow nearer home-for the full force of the Nazi onslaught to fall on the British Isles. No longer was it necessary last week for William Allen White or the Committee to argue that the U. S. had a vital interest in the way the war turned out. There had never been any doubt that the overwhelming mass of U. S. citizens hoped for a British victory. But there still remained big arguments and deep doubts about what the U. S. as a nation could and should do to help Britain...
...long tons a year (1937), all but a pipsqueak percentage from Russia, the African Gold Coast, Cuba, Brazil, India, the Philippines. Like rubber, manganese has to travel a long, war-periled route to Pittsburgh and Chicago. Enemy control of the seas would put the great steel industry, vital for national defense, in a pretty...
...escape the fact that if Britain is beaten the problem of defending the U. S. will grow many times more serious. They had gradually come to the conclusion that one of the weakest links in Britain's defenses might prove to be a shortage of destroyers. Destroyers are vital in convoy service, a sufficient number of British destroyers might be the difference between success and failure in repelling a German invasion of Britain by sea. But next to trawlers, destroyers have also suffered most from air bombings. Up to last week Britain had lost...
...from a fountain pen in a hand which wrote the words Franklin D. Roosevelt. The signature was set under an executive order which amounted to an embargo on oil and scrap iron. Japan had been getting an average of 70% and 90% respectively of her supply of these vital war materials from...
...River, around Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Fear of these streams' sources falling into Italian hands was one of the factors which undermined the famed Hoare-Laval Deal in 1935, whose adoption might have averted the Axis' being formed. Ethiopia became Italian anyway, and the threat to the vital water supply of Egypt and the Sudan was underscored by the Italian advance in this region...