Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From three vital way stations, three TIME-correspondents last week sent in reports. Emmet Hughes, TIME'S Rome bureau chief, who has spent four years in Spain, recently returned to Franco territory and found, contrary to wishful predictions, that the Franco regime seemed fatter and more secure than ever. In Poland, John Scott (TIME'S Berlin bureau chief) found a shaky but surprisingly energetic prosperity. From China, TIME'S Nanking Correspondent Frederick Gruin told no story of prosperity, but one of lean and bitter struggle and inevitable retribution. The reports...
...fall. The Communists were sure they could lick De Gasperi, or at least deflect his energies from the desperate business of government. But last week the Assembly decided to junk the schedule and to postpone general elections for at least six months. This gave De Gasperi a vital chance to show Italians that he could run and rebuild their country without benefit of Communist assistance-if he could...
...influence of Arthur Vandenberg late last winter, Congress had let the State Department go ahead with its reciprocal trade program. But even as Clayton arrived in Washington, Minnesota's irreconcilable Isolationist Harold Knutson warned: Congress will promptly raise any tariff the State Department lowers if it damages "a vital industry." As chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, Knutson set up a subcommittee* to keep the watch on the tariff wall...
...Clayton was more immediately concerned about what had already happened while his back was turned. In one industry which was so vital to other countries that a breakdown in negotiations at this point could mean the breakdown of the whole Geneva Conference, Congress had virtually declared economic war. The industry was wool, of which the British Commonwealth nations annually produce more than 1.7 billion pounds, must export more than 800 million pounds...
Little but Loud. The background of Congress' action was enough to make World Businessman Clayton give up in despair. Wool-growing is not a vital U.S. industry. It is a small, uneconomic business which assays at less than 1/1000 of the national income. But it has powerful friends-Congressmen and Senators from 23 wool-growing states, who can bleat as loudly as storm-whipped rams while trading support of bills to protect Southern peanut-growers for bills to protect Western sheep-raisers...