Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaves to silkworms, selling the cocoons that the worms spin out of their lower jaws. Several hundred thousand little Japanese girls earn their living and their marriage dowries in the filatures where the silken cocoons are un reeled. Until last summer the U.S. bought 90% of Japan's raw silk exports, amounting in 1940 to $150,311,000. Then the freezing of Japanese credits in the U.S. virtually stopped the trade...
This is not the first time that silk has seriously troubled Japan. Between 1930 and 1934 U.S. depression and the world onset of rayon (which had most of silk's qualities except elasticity) forced raw-silk prices down from $7 to $1.30 a pound. Japan found partial solutions to the problem. She went off gold, restricted silk production and greatly increased her small domestic silk consumption. She built up her own rayon industry until it approached her silk business, became the world's No. 1 rayon producer...
...staffed his little plant on the Schuylkill by going direct to various "40-Plus Clubs," groups of chin-up engineers and mechanics who thus advertised the reason they were out of work. In expanding for the British order, Cohen next hired instructors from the Delehanty Institute to train the raw labor he picked up. When he opened the West Pittston Iron Works (near Wilkes-Barre) to machine steel plates, 343 of the 350 men hired were from the coal mines. They went to school four nights a week, now operate drills and finishing machinery in three shifts, 24 hours...
Officially, Henderson had not abandoned his ceiling on cotton grey goods; he had merely unhitched it and tied it to raw cotton prices. For every .44? a Ib. change in cotton prices (up or down from 15.99?) the price of cloth can change ½? a Ib. (starting at 43? for Class A print cloths...
...Most common designation: "jeep," an all-inclusive Army nickname for anything insignificant, from a raw draftee to a tiny observation plane...