Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days dragged by, monotonous and deadly, rain came and brought drinking water-and raised mold on the hardtack. Benton wove a net of twine. The three men trolled with it, caught fish, which they ate raw. The fish guts they threw into the water lured hungry sharks which, Wajda said, "slapped the raft with their tails and we were afraid it would overturn." Benton began to grow weak. "On the 24th day he died and we put him overboard, mumbling what prayers we could remember. . . . Then Bancroft started to go out of his mind. ... He tried to jump. . . . I grabbed...
...shortage is over, anyway: paper. The U.S. can stop saving its old newspapers and magazines. U.S. papermakers last week were looking not for raw materials but for business. Some of them angrily protested that there never had been any paper shortage...
...magazine paper, writing paper or strong kraft wrapping paper, all of which are made primarily out of virgin wood pulp. Later on, some of it is used a second time to make paperboard, and (except in the South, where some board is made of kraft pulp) 85% of the raw material for that comes from old papers. When the demand for cardboard to package war materials shot up skyhigh, a lot more old paper was needed than ever before; and so a great patriotic drive was launched to get it collected...
Pulp magnified the confusion in paper. Since wood pulp is also a raw material for rayon and for explosives, and since the Scandinavian source was cut off, a pulp shortage was expected. But North America found it was self-sufficient in wood pulp, so long as it could not export it for lack of ships...
...loss of the Dutch East Indies and the threat to Ceylon have forced the U.S. to cross more than 100,000 tons off its list of hoped-for raw rubber...