Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Africa. The President's wife, on one of her numerous hospital rounds, had stopped to chat with him. What would he like best to do, she asked, once his bandages came off? Hardie Robbins guessed he would rather play the piano than anything else-once his stiff, raw, skingrafted hands were well enough...
...Washington. Week ago Donald Nelson touched off the row when he turned over to Wilson (on Wilson's threat of resignation) certain all-important "industry divisions" which Ferd Eberstadt has labored long and hard to build up. Function of these divisions is to see to it that, after raw materials have been divided up between the Army and Navy and other contenders, they flow smoothly to prime contractors and vital component parts manufacturers. They are the vital agencies on which WPB's control of raw materials depends...
...came a dreary series of compromises (the Defense Commission, OPM, SPAB), culminating in WPB itself. By that time the Army and Navy of necessity had acquired vast powers, not only over the ordering of war products (which has always been their function), but over the flow and scheduling of raw materials as well...
...reasonable compromise seemed to have been hit when Ferd Eberstadt, who had served the Army and Navy well as chairman of their Joint Munitions Board, was switched over to WPB. Promptly he set up his Controlled Materials Plan (TIME, Nov. 9) and attempted to give his authority over raw materials practical force by staffing his production divisions with top-flight talent. To top off the new program Nelson, with Eberstadt's approval, called in Charlie Wilson, who should have become an expediter of particularly serious production bottlenecks...
Davison, himself, is undeniably one of the greatest living jazz trumpeters. He plays with tremendous drive and a raw, searing tone, yet at the same time he had a bautiful sense of melody, unfortunatly rare in most jazz musicians...