Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attempts to fix prices by general retail and wholesale ceilings were made by every nation in the last war and proved failures because of mounting confusion, shifts in production costs, etc. The alternative-to fix prices of a given commodity or raw material at the source of production and to regulate the subsequent percentage addition for processors and the markup for merchants-retards price rises, avoids stifling production, is easier to police...
Since General Gerhardt formally activated the gist ("Wild West") Division at Camp White last August, some of his junior officers have developed convenient hernias or obtained transfers to softer outfits; but he himself takes raw men under pack five miles through the rain in one hour, nine miles in two, finishes at the double, insists that every officer under him be able to do the same. Even Gerhardt's chaplains practice marksmanship, swim icy rivers, make themselves physical as well as moral exemplars...
...Army, Navy, Maritime Commission and civilian demands will be cut to fit raw-material supplies-and to leave ample resources for Lend-Lease...
...major switch in strategy seemed to be forthcoming when WPB stopped construction of new war plants, ordered all raw materials to be used in production...
Mountain-clear air must be used in the sealed rooms where bombsights are made and serviced. There can be no dust in the powdered milk that feeds civilian populations abroad, no dirt in the blood plasma needled into wounded soldiers. For war use, raw air must be processed like any other crude material-laundered, filtered, electrified to remove impurities. From war experience with industrial air cleaning will come, after the war, a home-size electric dust-catcher that will cost no more to buy and run than an electric refrigerator...