Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the cast wanders through the thin story suffering badly from general cases of meatless Tuesdays all week. Thin, raw-boned and badly undernourished, their acting mirrors the effects of having to eat turnips for eight years on the nation's stages. If you've ever eaten too many turnips, you know the symptoms...
...slow voice: "If it wasn't for the fact I had seven witnesses, I wouldn't dare tell this story because it seems so fantastic. But within an hour after prayer meeting a sea gull came in and landed on my head." They ate the gull raw, used its innards for bait. They caught two fish, ate them raw...
...Censors also intercepted letters with information that helped track down stockpiles of hoarded raw materials, strategic minerals needed for the war. One resulting seizure alone was worth almost as much as the cost of operating the Office of Censorship a year-$26.5 million...
...billions worth of military goods which is the 1943 military goal. But the cutback will also be rendered difficult given the huge civilian demand. Joseph L. Weiner in the Office of Civilian Supply may labor prodigiously to get a balance of civilian output through drastic allocation of raw materials and through a "concentration" of civilian industries into the hands of a few firms. But how men and women are to be jarred out of the service industries with civilians able to pay good cash for services is by no means so clear...
...Woman. Second oldest U.S. steel maker (oldest: Taylor-Wharton at High Bridge, N.J.), Lukens was founded in 1810. Badly located for raw materials, it limped along until 1825, when upholstered, ambitious, 3O-year-old Rebecca Lukens inherited the business, became the first big-time U.S. female executive (see cut). Rebecca read steel cost sheets by sunlight and Shakespeare by candlelight, in 22 years won fame & fortune for herself and Lu kens. When she died in 1847, the business went to Son-in-law Dr. Charles Huston, whose descendants still own 37% of the company...