Word: raw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outbreak of the World War, Britain found that thousands of her skilled workers had flocked to the army, leaving raw youngsters to work the vital industries at home. Before the next war, Britain is determined to separate the cannon fodder from the needed workers. Out of a working population of 15,000,000 some 7,000,000 were listed by the Government as employed in "essential" jobs, exempt from voluntary defense duties, and, by implication, from draft. These included some whose possible wartime duties puzzled many Britons: floorwalkers, bulb growers, bookstall attendants, piano polishers, paper hangers, trade-union officials, executives...
Favorite subject of many jokes which circulate surreptitiously in Germany are ersatz (substitute) materials which Nazis have developed to take the place of imported raw materials. Last week many a German enjoyed a quiet chuckle when he found in his mailbox a fake bill from an industrious gagster who "demanded" payment for a suit of clothes made of wood fabric instead of wool...
...superiority, stressed the purely defensive value of French fortifications, discounted Soviet military power, the French Army's will to fight. They said nothing about the well-trained Czech Army, Britain's undisputed control of the seas, the unfinished condition of Germany's defenses, German insufficiency in raw materials, German internal discontent, the German Army's revulsion at the thought...
When Justice Harlan Stone remarked that "courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have the capacity to govern," he not only provided invaluable raw material for the Court's most vocal critics, but also exposed in crystalline form a fundamental weakness in what was then the attitude of a majority of his colleagues. Reflection of his views, and a program for the future creation of a more tolerant sort of legal mind, are to be found in Dean Landis' most recent annual report...
...Ambassador said at a press conference that Germany and Italy are much more interested in Spain for its strategic possibilities than for raw materials. He said that his government has "absolute factual information" that the two authoritarian powers have 19 air bases in the Basque country near the French border, and that Germany has "complete possession" of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic...