Word: fermentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's end is the big one: $5,127,647,652. Beyond its provision for upping the strength of the Army to 2,000,000 men, the bill also shows the results of the Army's orderly ferment about the changing tactics of modern warfare: it provides for a new kind of military outfit, an organization that grows directly from military thought and experimentation in this year's maneuvers...
Among the avantgardistes who ferment, sometimes germinally, at the thin edge of commercial publishing, the year's most notable were Henry Miller and Kenneth Patchen. Miller continued with Michael Fraenkel his extraordinary correspondence about Hamlet ($3) and published The Colossus of Maroussi ($3.50), a freewheeling book on Greece. Patchen's privately printed The Journal of Albion Moonlight ($5) was a nightmarish image of the state of the human soul in the year...
With recent developments in the Near East pointing toward increasing ferment in the Arab world, Philip W. Ireland, instructor in Government, yesterday pointed out that many Arab leaders, though by no means the majority, are willing to enter into alliance with the devil himself if that means promoting the Arab nationalist movement...
...peace pact with Yugoslavia, the day before German troops moved in, and Soviet petulance at the occupation of Bulgaria had shown Russia's attitude toward Hitler's drive into the Balkans. Last week, with the Germans pressing in on the Dardanelles and the Middle East in a ferment, Stalin seemed preparing to make the best deal he could to get something out of the grab bag for Russia. If this scheme succeeds, his will be the glory. If it fails, Molotov will be the goat...
Behind all this ferment were some un-fevered facts. Whenever industry skyrockets, labor troubles follow inevitably in a smoky trail. At last midweek the number of strikes in defense industries had actually dropped from twoscore a few weeks ago, with 47,000 workers out, to 27, with an estimated 40,000 out. There were still some 36,000,000 people in the U. S. (not counting agricultural workers) at work...