Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made some big decisions-or what seemed to be decisions at the time. He decided to adopt Reese Taylor's centralized plan to allocate steel-and to apply it to other raw materials as well. He issued orders taking away the blank-check power that Army & Navy field agents all over the country now have over priorities -a big factor in today's hopeless confusion. He insisted he would not back down, because of Army & Navy opposition, on his promise that Henry Kaiser could go ahead with cargo plane construction...
...word can't. They had heard it over & over: monotonous and nerve-jangling as a broken phonograph record: we can't attack until 1943; we can't get help to China; we can't open a second front; we can't get the raw materials...
...Production lags and announcement of raw material and steel shortages in the U.S. (see p. 13). These meant, said Goebbels, that the U.S. could never overwhelm the Axis with the weight of industrial power...
...Milwaukee lead clouds hung over the city, blotting out the sun. A raw wind whipped in from the south, bringing whitecaps and foam on Lake Michigan, chilling the children who wandered with their parents down Wisconsin Avenue to look at the Christmas toys in the windows of the department stores. In Chicago it was cold and overcast with a threat of snow which began as night fell...
...Purp fails the Armed Forces are lying in wait to bury it with appropriate military honors. With the Navy's blessing, tough General Somervell, who finds Nelson's alleged raw-materials authority irksome anyway (TIME, Aug. 3), and tough Ferd Eberstadt of the Army & Navy Munitions Board, think they know a much simpler way to balance supply & demand. They would adopt a reasonable facsimile of Germany's plan-a warrant system whereby each war contract, when made, includes warrants to obtain specific quantities of materials at the specific times when they are needed. This is vertical allocation...