Word: raw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already American industry is able to sell raw materials and partially finished products to Britain and France, it was pointed...
Fortnight ago Universal Pictures hit on the idea of warming over All Quiet on the Western Front for the peace trade. The picture was still as fresh as a raw amputation. High lights of horror were still two severed hands clutching the barbed wire, Lew Ayres stabbing a poilu in a shell hole, then trying to save him. But its conscientious producers tried to improve the masterpiece. Improvement No. 1: instead of opening with the mute, reproachful faces of dead soldiers, trooping past in an endless file of ghosts until they vanish in the sky, they began it with...
...Richest source of anti-scurvy Vitamin C is oranges and lemons. But in times of war or famine, suggested Biochemist Otto Arthur Bessey of Harvard, almost any kind of seed, kept in water until it sprouts, and then eaten raw, is an excellent substitute. The vitamin has some strange relationship to metabolism, for manual laborers and athletes need large quantities of C-rich foods. Another little-known fact: the vitamin mysteriously disappears from the bodies of tuberculosis patients. Victims of diabetes, when given large amounts of vitamin C, usually require smaller doses of insulin to regulate their carbohydrate metabolism...
This week U. S. assembly lines were clogging in several bottlenecks. > Textiles, paper, paint, steel, drugs and other industries dependent on imports faced a possible contraction, no immediate expansion of supplies. Raw wool, silk, pulp, shellac, vegetable oils, tin, chrome, tungsten, manganese, quinine, menthol, camphor, narcotics, are among materials which reach the U. S. by trade routes jeopardized...
...auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales to lag, particularly because brass manufacturers bought far ahead last May (TIME, May 15); and England, willing enough to buy processed brass, is not wasting her precious foreign exchange buying U. S. raw copper for her own mills, when she can obtain it from South Africa...