Word: fermenters
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...stem to stern, from top to bottom." All told, Gunther reckons, he traveled 40,000 miles in a year, visited 105 towns and "took notes on conversations with 1,503 people." Novelist Cloete confined his search to a single if vast theme: "To clarify our minds about the racial ferment of Africa." Reporter Gunther's more ambitious plan: to tell "all that the ordinary reader needs to know about Africa." Inside Africa is an outsider's story, flung together with globe-trotting glee; The African Giant is an inside job by a cautious professional who probably knows more...
...Ferment. In Buffalo, Bakery Driver Gabrielle Elfassi was fined $10 for speeding despite his explanation in court that he had to hurry, or "the whipped cream on the cupcakes would sour...
From start to finish, the brew, made in relatively small 630-bbl. batches, is constantly checked for taste and uniformity. As the ground-up barley and rice are boiled, the hops and yeast are added to ferment the beer and give it its characteristic, slightly bitter tang. Both temperature and time must be controlled to the minute. The immense lagering cellars, where the fermentation goes on for 21 days, must be airtight to keep out all airborne bacteria. Finally, Anheuser-Busch treats its beer with a time-honored process that no other major national brewer uses. In glass-lined tanks...
...with wit and wind, fact and fancy, rancor and fellowship, democracy worked its special ferment in Great Britain. At the campaign's halfway mark, big things like the Big Four meeting, little things like a drop in the price of tea, bred confidence in Tory meeting rooms. The Liberal London News Chronicle reported that in "Labor committee room after committee room, there is the grey admission that half the workers are disheartened, the other half defeatist." There were, of course, Laborites who would deny it. But most of the betting was that unless the wind turned full about, Britain...
...prohibition. They have, with some grumbling, accepted a ban on importing books, which apparently was intended to foil the entry of subversive literature. They haven't even fought the decree that bans driving licenses for women outside the company compound- although deep underneath there is a seething feminine ferment about...