Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil first set the pendulum in motion when, during the January conference at Rio de Janeiro (TIME, Jan. 19 et seq.), she broke off diplomatic relations with the Axis. The pendulum came swinging back with the torpedoing of Brazilian ships speeding raw materials to the U.S. Last week, when sinkings had reached four (possibly five) ships totaling 22,231 tons and had caused 51 deaths, Brazil realized that hemisphere solidarity was grim business. She reversed the pendulum, with angry weight behind...
...going, Cuba's quota of refined imports to the U.S. has been, and still is, limited to 375,000 tons a year. The U.S. refineries that handle Cuban sugar are nearly all located north of Baltimore. This means that, at a time when shipping is at a premium, raw sugar takes a long voyage up the dangerous coast rather than a short hop from Cuba to Florida-or taxes the railroads with a double haul...
...Department of Labor reported that 40% of the nation's war plants are operating 160 hours or more a week; 75%, 120 hours or better; 10%, 60 hours or more; the average war employe works 48-50 hours a week. Lack of raw materials is holding down fuller operations: one aircraft factory had to go back to a 40-hour shift for that reason...
...semipainful combat, which Thurber wrote all the way into a Broadway hit (with Co-Author Elliott Nugent) two years ago, is the most refreshing comic material Hollywood has encountered in a long time. The resulting cinema, though overlong and talky, is a delightful comedy charged with impish innuendo and raw laughter...
...right over from SPAB and OPM. Tons of paper still needed seven signatures on each item. Jobs overlapped. In rubber, for instance: tall, bald Arthur Newhall handled the problem of rubber imports (there are virtually none). Production of synthetic rubber was technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge of Hydra-handed Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, who doles out the dough. Used rubber was under Sears, Roebuck's J. Lessing Rosenwald. Rubber rationing was under Price Chief Leon Henderson...