Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fourth Term movement got two pats and one smack last week. Endorse ments came from...
...effect on the U.S. labor movement the most significant speech was delivered by young (31) James B. Carey, secretary-treasurer of C.I.O...
Tactical Force. When General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saw his early frontal attacks on the Mareth Line at Wadi Zig-zau fail, and saw his small flanking movement headed for El Hamma begin to succeed, he said: "Let's reinforce success." He pulled out much of his armor and more infantry and poured them south on a series of forced and camouflaged marches by night. The force made an extraordinary 200-mile dash across desert as trackless as the sky, building its own dust storms. Armor and the truck convoys made the whole desert stink like a garage, according...
...changing the U.S. farm problem from surplus to shortage, has also reversed the chemurgy-movement. For eight years the National Farm Chemurgic Council has tried to solve the farm problem by promoting diversified crops of use to industry. But today the farmer needs manpower, not new markets. It is industry that needs chemurgy, not the farmer. Without agricultural help, rubber, alcohol and explosives programs would be facing disaster...
Rubber. The easing of the rubber shortage was itself an ironic triumph for chemurgy. Synthetic rubber tires, with almost all their rubber derived from alcohol, are now rolling into service. Yet the greatest fiasco of the chemurgic movement had been the 1937 investment of $275,000 of Chemical Foundation funds in a 10,000-gallon-a-day alcohol plant of the Atchison Agrol Co. at Atchison, Kans. This was an effort to introduce a motor fuel containing 10% alcohol. It was successful in using surplus grain but unsuccessful in competition with gasoline, and closed after a year. Today the plant...