Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevent the domination of China by any nation which might eventually mobilize the 450 million Chinese for war against us is a vital interest of the United States. . . . Can China be kept out of the hands of Stalin? Certainly-and at a cost to ourselves which will be small compared to the magnitude of our vital interest in the independence of China. By what means...
...rear by all the means, tactical and strategic, at the disposition of the Red Army. Three-dimensional warfare offers new scope for this principle. Large armies can be landed by air in the farthest reaches of the enemy's rear lines; such forces, in addition to destroying vital industrial centers and occupying strategic points, would also constitute a kernel for civil...
...Even vital experimental orders had been nipped by lack of cash. Northrop Aircraft wheeled out one experimental ship this week, a jet-propelled Flying Wing. But President Jack Northrop said that the Air Force had had to shelve a 600-m.p.h. 4,000-mile-range guided missile which could have been developed in three years, and substitute one that would go 1,400 m.p.h. but would probably take six to ten years to develop...
...Many Planes. The American transport plane is a vital tool of air power. But the airlines themselves were in a bad way; in the first seven months of 1947, only Eastern and Inland Air Lines managed to make an operating profit. Though September traffic was the greatest in the industry's history, the overall prospect for 1947 was still a loss. The airlines were in no shape to boost the sagging airframe industry; they ruefully informed the commission that they had already overbought on new equipment. All had been caught in the squeeze of higher wage, supply and other...
Blaisdell will probably uphold the view that the industrial reconstruction of Germany is a vital factor in the recovery of that country. He brings to the rostrum experience gained as Chief of the United States Mission for Economic Affairs in London between...