Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housed Britons knew full well that the success of the Vigilante movement was only a scratch on the nationwide surface of the housing problem. In the next ten years, Britain will need five million new houses...
From 1870 to 1940, while the general population was increasing three-fold, the enrollment of high schools was being multiplied by about ninety times as a result of the movement toward universal education begun in a few states before the middle of the last century by Horace Mann and Henry Barnard and culminating at the end of the century in free public education in every state and free secondary education in most...
Redeployment was well ahead of schedule and still gaining speed. Speediest of all was air transport. Last week the Army Air Forces gave out some eye-popping statistics of history's biggest air passenger movement: in a 72-day period up to mid-July, 125,370 military personnel had been flown from the European and Mediterranean theaters to the U.S. They had come in 3,425 heavy bombers and about 600 Air Transport Command planes. The Army thought that virtually all the wounded would be home in a week...
...redeployment movement was another example of U.S. speed and organization. In France and Italy were many centers where G.I.s are assembled, processed, filtered out to the embarkation camps. Ancient Reims is the hub of an assembly area made up of 18 tent cities named Boston, Brooklyn, Cleveland, New York, San Antonio, St. Louis, Carlisle,†etc. The general idea in redeployment camps: keep morale high with plenty of recreation, shows, liberal leaves, a taste of home in advance. Thus "Boston" has "Tremont Theater." At "Brooklyn" is a home plate from Ebbets Field, a bag of Coney Island sand...
...Whether or not Russia declares war against Japan, Stalin certainly intends to share in the spoils of victory. For this purpose he tries to enlist . . . Japanese forces which can be set in motion at the propitious moment. . . . The Free Japan movement officially dates back to February, 1944, when a report from Yenan [capital of the Chinese provinces under the Communists] announced the arrival of the member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, Susuku Okano...