Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fires slowly burned themselves out. About 9 o'clock the first night men were able to get into the engine room and light one boiler. As the hours went by, the other vital functions were restored-water pumps, communications, ventilation, power. By noon of March 20, four boilers were lighted and the Pittsburgh cast off. The cripple was able to make 14 knots under her own power. By the second day, still convoyed by cruisers and destroyers, which again & again had to fight off Jap planes, she was making a steady 20 knots...
Both sides of the vital Polish issue currently holding the spotlight at the San Francisco Conference were defended last night at a forum in the Astronomical Observatory Library here. The discussion was one in a series of semi-weekly forums on international relations sponsored by the Observatory...
...reference to your article on the drafting of nurses [TIME, April 9], I would like to add a few comments. I feel qualified to do so since I am a member of the Navy Nurse Corps. Of course I admit there are many nurses who are doing vital work in the Corps, but unfortunately there is another side to the issue...
...Question. Beneath this bumbling Congressional show lay a live and vital issue. Franklin Roosevelt had asked for power to make additional tariff slashes of as much as 50% below the levels of Jan. i, 1945, and Harry Truman had given his support. Republicans charged that this would allow cuts of as much as 75% below the Smoot-Hawley levels of 1930-34 but administration spokesmen pointed out that such cuts could occur in less than 40% of U.S. imports. The Administration's main point: further authority for reductions was basic to the U.S. policy of world collaboration...
...makes up, highflying B-29s had to be sent dangerously far up the Chinese coast and into the interior on weather-charting trips. To assist in this risky business, Dr. Helmut E. Landsberg, University of Chicago meteorologist, assigned experts to develop radio-sondes, dropped by parachute, to pick up vital ground-level weather data. When perfected, they will considerably bolster predictions of Air Force forecasters in the Marianas...