Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stack of discs stands waisthigh, big 16-inch transcriptions, some 100 hours of music, a recorded hullabaloo of wails, twangs, drumbeats and gong-whams. It is the biggest mass of raw material that U.S. musicologists and anthropologists have yet had from the East Indies and the South Seas...
Stranded in New York, Mobile, New Orleans, Norfolk, Tacoma, were freighters and passenger ships. Chiefly affected were ten vessels of the Alcoa Line, which carry supplies to defense bases in the West Indies, bring back bauxite from Surinam (Dutch Guiana). Bauxite is the raw material of aluminum, which is the most publicized of defense-program shortages...
...pound. In an early experiment one and one-half millionth of a gram was obtained from 40,000 Ib. of egg yolks. A primitive protein related to urea, biotin occurs in all living cells and is best known as the antagonist of another protein called avidin, which occurs in raw egg white. One of the biggest problems in biochemistry today is the dynamic balance between these two vital substances...
...these cynics are the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter which in Article IV pledges a workable post war world economy and the meeting next month in Washington of Vice-President Wallace with Sir Leith-Ross which will give substance to that pledge. Plans will be made to prevent the raw materials of the world from being monopolized by the powerful victors to the exclusion of others; and preparations will be made for transferring post-war Europe from a war to a peace footing. An accumulation of resources will prevent hunger and economic collapse from undermining the peace settlement...
...even the European masters of verbal gymnastics to pervert. Therefore, the proposals of Wallace and Leith-Ross, if sufficiently just, widely enough publicized, and actually carried out, may mean that the war will not inevitably result in an economically unworkable Europe. With freedom of access to markets and raw materials open to nations large or small, political boundaries will be less important and autonomy for small cultural blocs an economic possibility. The fight for lebensraum finally may be ended...