Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squeaks & Rattles. Charlie Wilson's new machinery was not yet as big or as high-powered as the total-war mobilization machine of World War II, nor was it guaranteeing to run with fewer squeaks and rattles. Still unanswered, for example, was the vital question of how much power Wilson & Co. would have over military procurement. Another major trouble was that agriculture was still (with the exception of products needed by industry) beyond the reach of the kind of central control imposed on industry...
...Houses. ". . .the House Plan has become a vital core." It should be improved by being even more closely knit into the educational fabric of the College through debate and perhaps adoption of some of the recommendations of the committee on "Advising at Harvard College...
...debate-about where its lines of defense really lie. Has Dean Acheson become such a political liability that in this time of crisis he constitutes a national danger? There are two practical answers now-either Dean Acheson must go, or events must move so fast that national unity, a vital necessity in a time like the present, will come perforce. It is the second answer that Harry Truman is apparently banking...
Dangerous Wrangle. The U.S. had approached the British and reminded them that the prolonged wrangle in Iran could endanger Europe's vital oil supply and open poverty-stricken Iran's door to the Reds. While Washington had no intention of interfering with the British company, the ultimate penalty for failing to reach an understanding with Iran would fall on the U.S. which, in the long run, is responsible for the West's defense...
Without any precise goals set for war production, the Government began to cut back civilian production by stepping up the stockpiling of such vital materials as cobalt (for radar), copper, columbium (for jet motors) and aluminum. Since the size of the stockpiles is a military secret, no one except the stockpiles knew whether they were too big or too small. But they had already brought about some fairly deep cuts in civilian production-and would obviously bring many more...