Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will It?" Sirs: . . . Photos of war casualties may make some work harder in vital industries, some gripe less, sacrifice more. But printing pictures of pitiful traffic tragedies (TIME, Dec. 25) will not make kids stop playing in the streets when there is nowhere else to play. It will not make truck drivers or other drivers cease driving as if they owned the streets. It will not make society rearrange its communities so that kids may have ample play space safe and separate from traffic lanes. Or will...
...propelled guns and trucks snaked northward. Its aims: to seize U.S. gasoline and supply dumps just beyond Stavelot, to cut in behind the communications and supply lines of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies. At little Stavelot (pop. 5,000) the Germans would be only 22 miles from Liege, vital U.S. supply point at the end of the line from Antwerp. If Liege with its rich booty fell to the Germans, the U.S. First Army would have to retreat from the whole Aachen-Duren area...
...seem to have made good use of the special skills of these men. To mention just a few, a photographer is "still my own photo boss with my own lab" ... an editorial man is Yank's senior Alaska correspondent . . . and one of our News Bureau men is gathering vital combat intelligence for the Army's G-2 Division...
...sometimes pose a problem in semantics. Isolated phrases can be easily defended: the overall effect, especially to the uncritical reader, has sometimes been rosier than the cold facts warrant. On landing at Morotai: "This would cut off and isolate the enemy garrison in the East Indies . . . sever the vital supplies to the Japanese mainland of oil and other war essentials...
Money, Liquor, Women. The racketeers started by selling cigarets, watches, personal odds & ends. Then they branched out, sacrificing valuable cargo space to make room for their contraband, some times interrupting vital flights to get rid of it. Plied with women and liquor by well-heeled crooks, more & more U.S. air men became an integral part of the story book international syndicate that used an elaborate network of fences and even secret codes...