Word: raw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William S. Knudsen is a big-boned, 60-year-old Danish-American who likes to make motorcars and more motorcars. If anything interferes with this procedure he gets uneasy, at times even uses words he learned in 1900 when, as a raw immigrant, he was a shipyard's reamer in a New York torpedo-boat plant...
...part, New Zealand promises to foster Anglo-New Zealand trade, assures Great Britain that no uneconomic industries will be protected. Most important, Britain granted New Zealand $45,000,000 in credits ($25,000,000 to be spent on defense, $20,000,000 on imports of heavy machinery and raw materials) and the Bank of England converted the $85,000,000 loan into an $80,000,000 one consisting of a series of short-term notes maturing from 1941 to 1946. The New Zealand Daniel had also converted the British lions...
...that only drastic financial measures could better the situation. Before they had talked for many hours, they had drafted an agreement, the gist of which was that in return for Adolf Hitler's good behavior Great Britain would see that Germany had access to world markets and to raw materials. To help the Third Reich turn its swords into plowshares an international loan would be granted, although Mr. Hudson later denied that any mention of $5,000,000,000 was made...
Marathon is now producing the new lignin plastic at the rate of 25 tons a day, has raw materials on hand for a top production of 400 tons daily. Last year the company's net sales were $11,109,000. Last week its officials announced a $1,500,000 expansion program. But Chemist Howard was still scouting ahead. His goal: to establish his new chemical talk-of-the-town as the most important addition to the world's store of raw materials since coal tar and cellulose...
...Scantier public distribution of medicines ; shortage of raw materials for bandages, disinfectants, cleaning agents...