Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to read. The first item was highway construction. Next came the Administration's military-reserve program. Snapped the President: "This is vital to all of us. Why are we fooling around about it?" He returned to his list: military survivor benefits, housing and health legislation, school construction. When he got to mutual-security authorization and appropriations, he commented acidly: "If anything should go through in a hurry, that should...
Last week Zwicky found himself in a curious situation. Acting under Paragraph 2-203 of the Armed Forces Industrial Security Regulations, which refuses clearance to aliens who have not applied for naturalization, the Department of Defense lifted his clearance. Zwicky, his head packed with vital secrets, could have no further contact with the classified projects that he has been supervising...
...proper bums at all, but merely aggravated psychological cases eager for reclamation. After a painstaking study for a doctorate at the Sorbonne, Psychologist Alexandre Vexliard reported in a thesis that some 50% of the Paris clochards are not drinking men. that many of them do useful and vital work at the city's markets and that most of them are "redeemable" to society. The bums of Paris reacted with outraged pride to these black charges...
Another advantage may prove more important than efficiency. The bypass engine is comparatively quiet, and this is a vital virtue for airlines that fear to fly screaming jets from airports besieged by embattled neighbors. The bypass principle can even silence the afterburner, whose bone-shaking thunder would otherwise keep it from being used to get heavy transports off the ground...
Some companies went to work on their own. Koppers picked a "reorganization point" outside Pittsburgh, stocked nearby bank vaults with microfilms of vital company records, and instructed key personnel to head for this emergency shelter at the first sign of attack. Standard Oil (NewJersey) set up an alternate office 60 to 75 miles outside New York City to feed, sleep and serve as GHQ for 100 top executives. Curtiss-Wright bought 84 square miles in north central Pennsylvania to assemble jet engines and 5,000 acres in New Jersey's Ramapo Hills for a bombproof headquarters. The petroleum industry...