Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were cool heads. Deeper than the widely reported hysteria was a grim determination to prepare for anything. One tremendous shift was apparent: the rising wind of world events had for a time at least blown away Isolationism. There were still Isolationists in the U. S. but they were themselves isolated from the feeling of the nation as a whole if not from reality...
...Klim" Upstairs. No less significant than its reform in principle was the Red Army's simultaneous shift in personnel. Defense Commissar Marshal Kliment ("Klim") Voroshilov, the popular, jolly and easygoing warlord who for 15 years has cavorted about the Red Square every May Day on a glossy charger set off by a naming red saddlecloth with gold trimmings, was kicked upstairs to the job of Vice Premier and Chairman of the Defense Committee...
...beginning to feel that they're not getting a square deal. But financial arrangements for next season must be made soon, and the band hesitates to speak up. A threat of a hold-out next year would stir up the turgid H.A.A. And some good, long, sour notes would shift the band's expenses from Johhny's term bill to where they belong--among the rest of the H.A.A. disbursements...
...other words, record merchandising may be at a saturation-point now; Victor is shifting to a larger mass production which will more quickly reach saturation and provide a larger base for a later shift to the film medium...
Again, chances for a major shift are in the air making for possibly a better boat, but, for the present the first crew lineup is as follows: Abbot, stroke; Gaudielle, seven; Swanson, six; Dana, five; Woodbury, four, Biddle, three; Smith, two; and Bigelow...