Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swarming over the ship that afternoon were Coast Guards, many of them raw recruits; 500 men of the prospective crew, unfamiliar with the ship, 1,750 employes of Robins, "of whom 50 were untrained men designated as 'fire watchers'"; 675 employes of subcontractors, all under various straw bosses, foremen, superintendents, officers. No one was in over-all command...
...Under their 1942 U.S. import quotas, the Philippines at the end of March had yet to ship 418,000,000 lb. of coconut oil, 1,750,000,000 lb. of raw sugar, 5,676,000 lb. of cordage, 200,000,000 cigars...
...unfilled orders by class of product and by destination. Thus Purp's advantages to WPB-and to the war effort as a whole-were far more important than mere convenience. In so far as it was used, Purp 1) gave WPB an airtight control over the flow of raw materials; 2) prevented automatically any leaks of material to non-rated uses; 3) gave WPB an over-all moving picture of war production and of raw-material needs and uses that umpteen other surveys had failed to produce...
Every so often a publisher will issue a book whose title bears little obvious relation to its content. This is one of those cases. George Soule, an editor of the New Republic, is not concerned with the material strength of a nation in terms of geo-politics or raw materials. Nor is he dealing with moral or ethical factors. The book is rather a frank attempt to synthesize a new social theory from the tangled threads of the several social sciences as they exist today...
...Prices of imported products cannot be frozen. So what will a manufacturer do whose selling costs are frozen and whose imported raw materials continue rising in price...