Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot and the bombardier. These, with other types (Dornier, Junkers, etc.), were the ships that were trying to soften up Britain with intensified raids all last week (see above). A Heinkel He. in K is pictured on the opposite page during a hypothetical attack on the vital Thames Estuary and London docks...
...than seven years-the Canal is the only insurance the U. S. has against leaving one of its coasts undefended against attack. If an enemy should succeed in blocking or capturing the Canal, that insurance would no longer exist. Hence the first paradox of U. S. strategy: the most vital point for the defense of the continental U. S. is an isthmus 1,300 miles south of Miami...
...interim working arrangement about the island itself. . . . It is plainly a question where the proper official attitude is to wait in order to see what actually happens in Martinique rather than to draw conclusions from what appears to be happening in Vichy. . . . What we must do . . . to protect our vital interests in this hemisphere, we must do . . . but [it] should be done as a practical measure in a transitional period. And we should invoke no general principles, formulate no new doctrines, and above all do nothing which can be interpreted or misinterpreted as a conclusive judgment that France is finally...
Last week the U. S. Government formally acknowledged that when a world goes to war, foreign trade becomes a weapon of national policy-two-edged. On both the import and export front, materials vital to U. S. defense were removed from the shrinking belt of free trade...
...though belated, was an effective weapon. Because it was not an embargo, merely a licensing arrangement, it gave the U. S. power to bring pressure on any one foreign government by refusing to give it needed war materials. Moreover, it gave the State Department an accurate check on what vital materials were being shipped to whom on what terms. U. S. moral embargoes now have a set of teeth...