Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these, which will be affected by shortages, cannot, thinks Odium, be efficiently converted for defense use. To keep them in business, reduce the blood offerings demanded by defense, Odium suggested for them 1) cash relief or 2) allocation of 2% of estimated 1942 scarce raw material supplies...
...anxious to make a deal for two reasons. First, it would assure the Army and Navy of high-test molasses, one of the chief raw materials in making industrial alcohol, which is essential in smokeless powder (TIME, Oct. 13). By purchasing the entire crop, furthermore, the U.S. would avoid future open-market competition-especially with Britain. Already this year such head-to-head bidding has lifted Cuban sugar prices 230% to 2.5? a lb., highest since...
...wonder was not the size of such excesses, but the fact that Tupper's questionnaires turned up any excesses at all. Among themselves, businessmen talk frankly of inventories they are hiding from the Government. They have also done a lot of inventory-ruining: processing their raw materials just enough (boring a few holes in steel sheets, etc.) to spoil them for allocations purposes, although they are not ready to use them themselves. Such stocks do not show up in Mr. Tupper's figures...
Figures or no figures, Don Nelson last week formulated his allocation technique: 1) OPM's "end-products" industry sections are to huddle with their industry representatives, develop a "requirements program" for each industry; 2) the "end-products" sections are then to discuss their needs with the OPM raw materials branches involved, scale them down if necessary, but arrive at some minimum figure; 3) OPM's Industrial Conservation Bureau is to advise on possible simplification, substitution etc.; 4) SPAB is to get the finished program, send it to Priorities for actual allocation of materials...
...they had read in the newspapers. Professor Hixson said he had turned his process over to the Government and expected a pilot plant would shortly be erected to substantiate his cost estimates in actual production. It will probably be located near the cheap-power source of the Tennessee Valley. Raw material can be mined in almost anybody's back yard since aluminum, the commonest of all metals, is one of the three principal components of the earth's crust...