Word: vital
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were some of those almost forgotten records which FBI agents had turned up. Hiss had said firmly that the last time he saw Chambers was in "May or June of 1936." Against that statement were the Chamberses' recollections and two facts established some time ago but now assuming vital proportions...
...Angeles still had a vast supply of its most precious and vital commodity-water. It drew 255 million gallons a day from the Owens River. With its adjoining towns it sucked too million gallons through a 392-mile aqueduct from the Colorado River; despite the bitter interstate dispute between California and Arizona over the river's output, Los Angeles expected to tap the Colorado more freely in the future...
Last week Bermúdez' hole card looked more like a trey than an ace. Mexico's oil is not "vital" to U.S. defense, a consultant told the State Department. The consultant was Max W. Ball, a one-time director of the Oil and Gas Division in the Interior Department. Ball reported that Canada, where U.S.-controlled oil companies have already made rich discoveries, "offers more alluring prospects, geologically and politically, than Mexico...
...Pennsy gets 75? for doing almost nothing. Said the commission: these revenues over the years would have more than wiped out the $12 million in accounts payable which the Pennsy claims is now due from the Long Island. ¶About eleven miles of Long Island track form a vital freight route to the Brooklyn waterfront. Fees paid for use of this track by the N.Y. Connecting Railroad (jointly owned by Pennsylvania and the New Haven) totaled $300,000 last year, less than half of what the commission thought they should be. ¶The Long Island owns a freight yard near...
Differential Effect. Surgery cannot help the other 9,000,000. Many cancers involve vital organs that cannot be disturbed, or metastases which spread so quickly and widely throughout the body that the surgeon cannot find and remove them all. To deal with such cancers some agent is needed that has a strong "differential effect," i.e., that kills cancer cells without hurting normal tissue. A few such drugs are already known, but they are only a start, and not good enough...