Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four. The U.S. could be grateful that it had so rugged an ally in so vital a location. As the one power that belongs to both NATO and the Baghdad Pact, Turkey is the anchor post in the chain of alliances that the free world has forged to head off Russian aggression. Possession of the Dardanelles gives the Turks the potential ability to close off the Red navy's only means of direct access to the Mediterranean.* If Turkey were not in the way, no substantial military force would stand between Russia and its dreams of domination...
...rolling stock and lease it to the railroads at a price that would enable the Government eventually to get its money back with interest. George Alpert, president of the New Haven Railroad, went a step further; suggested that eastern railroads that carry heavy loads of commuters, as "a vital public service," get a "modest" 1% of Government highway funds as subsidy. "As ugly and distasteful as the word subsidy may be," said Alpert, "I consider it a welcome alternative to a loss of service or bankruptcy." But Ernest S. Marsh, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, came out strongly...
Most of the picture's defects are inherited from the author-the schoolgirl longueurs on life, the Rimbaudelairean sentimentality about evil, the fashionable despairs with the Paris labels on them. But then the author has provided the vital thing in the picture too: a story that seizes the imagination and insists on being read not only as a story but as a symptom of one of the more exotic diseases of leisure...
...power other industries have. No one farmer or small group of farmers can increase demand for his product by cutting back production. When prices fall, the only course is to produce more--which causes prices to fall still further. Thus, artificial price supports are a necessary prop for a vital part of the economy...
...relative power of the two plays in a way simply reflects the relative force of Thomas Wolfe and Sherwood Anderson--Wolfe a chaotic, massive, but overwhelmingly vital power, and Anderson a smaller, more controlled talent. Whereas Angel as a book has the solid core but lacks shape, Winesburg, despite its wellshaped phrases, has a weaker core. Therefore a stage craftsman can, by pruning and shaping, transfer and even intensify much of Thomas Wolfe; the only important element lost in making Angel into a play was the visible stagnation and oppressive boredom, which are communicable far more easily in a long...