Word: brewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Elliott Roosevelt, who is never out of the news-or hot water-very long, was in both last week. Splenetic Columnist Westbrook Pegler, an old Roosevelt-hater, pulled the cork on a long bottled-up story. There was much of Pegler foam & fume; there was also a muddy brew...
...with sailors, office workers and the simple man in the street, I saw on the screen the beloved face of Comrade Stalin and my heart beat gladly when handclapping resounded in the hall. I then thought that the average American has all the basis for scorning the dirty reactionary brew of Hearst, McCormick & Co. . . . For this average American is the great American people which . . . wishes to live in peace and friendship with the great people of my country...
...could have imagined these vignettes etched by a madman. Once the Red storm had passed and the German shells had run out of range, waiters from a Bierstube stood in the rubble with foaming steins, smiling tentatively, offering them to the Russians, going through the motions of tasting the brew, as if to say: "See, it is not poisoned...
...great unknown ingredient in this witches' brew is the German people. Undoubtedly the Allies have underestimated their toughness, resourcefulness and will-to-win. Yet as the Germans begin to see absolutely no hope of winning, more & more of them, not so sunk in guilt as the Nazi malefactors, will want to cry quits. There will be only one way to keep them in line: terror...
...first, penicillin was produced only in small flasks (relatively easy to protect against contamination) from a strain of the mold, Penicillium notatum. In Dr. Coghill's laboratory, mycologists developed new, heavier-yielding strains. They also found that the mold's growth could be greatly speeded in a brew of lactose made from skimmed milk and steep liquor made from corn...