Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blacked out and unescorted, the heavy cruiser Indianapolis was 39 hours out on the moonlit Philippine Sea, bound for the U.S.'s great new anchorage at Leyte. She had carried vital materials for the first atomic bomb from the States to Guam, and now, on Sunday, July 29, was logging 17 knots to rejoin the fleet. Shortly before midnight the end came for the veteran (commissioned in 1932) clipper-bowed "Indy." Two explosions on her starboard side smashed her communications, fouled her controls. She sank within 15 minutes...
...General Mobilization." Meanwhile, practical defense measures continued. The Japanese Government issued a national appeal to Japan's transport workers to be ready to sacrifice their "very lives" to maintain vital transportation services. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the "general mobilization for production" would continue. In a joint statement the military and civilian authorities emphasized the old order that all Japanese "guilty of disquieting speech and behavior, also those spreading rumors" would be "strictly punished according to the military code...
Radar was chiefly responsible for defeating the U-boat and the buzz-bomb. The British say that radar and 300 R.A.F. pilots won the Battle of Britain. It was a vital aid to airmen and paratroopers over Normandy on cloudy Dday, and to the U.S. Navy in sinking the Japanese fleet. Radar opened the roof of Hitler's Europe for the day-&-night, all-weather body punching that crippled the Wehrmacht-and it lifted the Nipponese...
...place of micrograms. By last July 12, the scientists were ready to test their product. In an old ranch house on the New Mexican desert southeast of Albuquerque, a company of jittery men watched Cornell Physicist Robert Bacher assemble the first atomic bomb. At one point a vital part jammed. The scientists gasped but were coolly reassured by Bacher...
Last week Braniff doggedly brought into the open the vital question: who owns and controls international airports in the Western Hemisphere? Cried Braniff Vice President Douglas Stockdale: "These airports were built as military bases for continental defense under the lend-lease laws of the United States. . . . They are considered by the military authorities of Mexico as property of the Government and neither can nor should be considered as exclusive property of C.M.A...