Word: tinderbox
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...spring night in 1921 the angry torches of 10,000 white mobsters set fire to Tulsa's Negro district. The flames roared through the tinderbox houses, completely destroyed the new $92,000 Mount Zion Baptist Church (Negro). It had taken Mount Zion's 600 members seven years to finance and build their first church. All that remained were charred walls and a $50,000 mortgage...
Quietly, General George C. Marshall appeared before the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. He asked that no action be taken on the resolution at this time, warned that military operations might be endangered in the tinderbox Near East. Bolstering him were letters to the Committee from Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. At week's end, it appeared that the Senate would heed General Marshall...
East of Greece General Wilson must keep an eye on the uneasy neutrality of Turkey. Below there lies the tinderbox Levant and the peninsula of Arabia. In Palestine Jews and Arabs live in a state of ancient and dangerous friction. Farther east, at the separate British command for Iran and Iraq, Wilson's territory touches directly the problem of Russian influence in the north Persian area where Russian power is a historical threat to India...
Spring's forest fires struck in an unexpected quarter. Anticipated next summer and autumn were lightning, cigaret and even faggot-set fires in the vast tinderbox of the Northwest, which is as vulnerable to incendiaries as Japan's papery cities. But the late April-early May fires in the East were a flank attack...
...vital U.S. aircraft industry, whose rapid growth has made it a tinderbox, primed for labor trouble, a small flare-up last week illuminated dangers ahead. In Middle River, Md., C.I.O. workers in the huge Glenn L. Martin Co. plant walked out, called a strike. In spite of the strike call, most of the employes (members of a union which C.I.O. leaders said was company-dominated) stayed on, disregarding a skimpy picket line...