Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past month has witnessed a persistent spread of price increases from raw materials to semi-manufactured and then to finished goods. These in turn are more and more being passed on from wholesale to retail markets, and are affecting the living costs of the entire consuming population as well as the operating costs of the farmers...
...Sorry, Impossible. It would take a whopping Japanese backdown, all wrapped up and delivered, to rouse any U.S. interest in a deal which might turn out to be raw. Where could the Japanese back down? Certainly not from Indo-China. The occupation of French Indo-China was the only big Japanese success in nearly two years and was immensely popular in Japan. Last week the Japanese were busy entrenching themselves in their new conquests. The Foreign Office named sage, sharp-faced, experienced Kenkichi Yoshi-zawa Special Ambassador-at-Large (i.e., Gauleiter} to Hanoi. Said he, of Japan and Indo...
...questions which-though elementary-have never been answered before: 1) What does the U.S. have to produce to defend itself, to aid Britain, China, Russia and Latin America, and to satisfy its own minimum civilian needs at the same time? 2) How much does this represent in terms of raw materials, machinery, man power...
...mandatory instead of voluntary basis, thus gives them the same legal status as Army & Navy ratings. In conjunction with recent Regulation No. 1, which forces plants to accept defense orders, this gave SPAB the tools it needed for strict, complete allocation of all of the nation's raw materials and production facilities. It also served notice on Army & Navy that henceforth they could not ride roughshod over Lend-Lease and essential civilian orders...
...boxboard industry's chief raw material is wastepaper-old newspapers, discarded wrappings, magazines. Only 28% of the nation's paper is now recovered. About 50% is lost in furnaces and rubbish heaps. Last year the junkmen collected about 5,500,000 tons-about half 1942's needs. The defense bite alone (boxes for Army shells, etc.) is expected to take two-thirds of the industry's output...