Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHAIRMAN RUSSELL: "The very vital question about this whole tragic controversy is the employment of the Nationalist troops, the position of a naval blockade and the bombing of the bases and lines of supply and communications of the Communist Chinese. Now, every member of the committee wishes to develop just how the controversy arose...
...Carpet. Nothing was more thoroughly snarled than the vital machine-tool industry. Automakers, with $5 billion in rearmament contracts, could not get the machine tools to build the arms. Reason: NPA had failed to provide priorities on materials for machine tools. And though machine tools have little bearing on consumer costs, OPS had thrown the industry out of joint by foolishly slapping on price controls. The controls themselves, ignoring the industry's long gap between orders and delivery, in some cases set ceilings on the basis of orders taken as long as three years...
...There is no doubt that Nehru's desire for peace is deep and sincere. Yet his efforts for peace are what most perplex his Western admirers. He has said: "The policy India has sought to pursue is not a negative and neutral policy. It is a positive and vital policy that flows from our struggle for freedom and from the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. How can . . . peace be preserved? Not by surrender to aggression, nor by compromising with evil or injustice, but also not by talking and preparing for war." In spite of this Gandhi-like doctrine, Nehru...
London unhappily resigned itself to A.I.O.C.'s expropriation; it would try to make sure of vital oil from Iran by control of its transport and marketing. If the flow of oil is menaced by violent outbreaks, London let it be known that British warships can reach Iran's oil ports within 48 hours' sailing time...
Earl Kulp '51, representing the Young Republicans, urged a return to bi-partisan foreign policy as conceived by the late Senator Vandenberg. He agreed that aid to Aela is vital and urged that "Truman should talk to Stalin in he has to walk through Red Square in sackcloth." Kai-Shek and at least reconnaissance missions over Manchuria...