Word: raw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First news was that the British Royal Navy, already at battle stations, controlled the Mediterranean at both ends and had blockaded Germany completely from the North Sea to the Skagerrak. This action, now that Germany had access to Russia's food and raw materials, meant less than it did in World War I unless the British were prepared for the desperate adventure of forcing and commanding the Baltic...
...comes to all U. S. Steel Corp. employes at three score and ten, retirement came last week to hard-boiled round-faced Thomas Moses, vice president in charge of raw materials. At eleven Welsh-blooded Tom Moses began his career in an Indiana mine, soon had a union card. By the time he was 40, he had changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman...
...Russia, and her raw materials, and Germany, and her industries, make an economic combination...
About $21,000,000 of U. S. Rubber's $168,103,594 of assets is invested in East Indian rubber plantations, which assures the company of 20% of its raw material (so long as the Japanese do not grab or blockade the East Indies), partial protection against inventory losses if rubber slumps, extra profits if rubber prices skyrocket...
...Ford Sinclair, sick & tired of the red ink on the ledgers of his sprawling Consolidated Oil Corp., fixed his steely blue eyes on the brawling petroleum industry and made a statement for all to hear. Said he: "The price of [finished] products must go up or the price of raw material must go down...