Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find the Black Dragon boys in the dull, stuffy, British-style Tokyo Club, drinking gin & bitters. Toyama's men were eating raw fish and seaweed in their gathering places in Shinjuku and Mukojima, where, I am certain, Mr. Byas did not have the interesting fortune to enter upon the conclaves and hear the plots. The locale and character are as different as Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club and a Harlem honky-tonk marijuana parlor...
Seven months-and some new men-had made a startling difference. In May, WPB had been forced to cancel war contracts right & left: the planning had got out of hand, the program was overexpanded, raw-material supply was in a black mess. WPB and the Army were in a knock-down fight for authority...
Vice Chairman Ferdinand M. Eberstadt, after three months on WPB, had his new "controlled materials plan," for allocating the nation's raw materials, well in hand. For the first time there was a concrete program of Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and civilian needs for 1943. Eberstadt also knew, better than ever before, how much material would be available. There was a good chance that supply and demand could be balanced...
...first time that Ralph Coghlan's Irish temper had got him into the news. Three years ago he got so editorially inflamed about a raw acquittal in a St. Louis courtroom, he found himself, charged with contempt of court. This brought a 20-day jail sentence (later reversed). Few months later, when Franklin Roosevelt traded the 50 overage destroyers to Britain, Editor Coghlan ripped off an editorial titled Dictator Roosevelt Commits an Act of War, bought space in New York and Washington papers to advertise his views...
Tojo's implication that such raw materials were reaching Nazi Europe in quantity had a kernel of truth despite the strain on Japanese shipping (see below). The first considerable Japanese shipment, mostly rubber, reached Germany last summer. Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare believes the cargo was sailed from Indo-China to West Africa and transferred to small coastal craft; by night these vessels ran the blockade to French Mediterranean ports...