Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They will endeavor, with due respect for their existing obligations, to further the enjoyment by all States, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity...
This week aid will start. The Russians will get short-range bombers, pursuit planes, tanks, anti-tank guns. Later-if there is a later-Russia will need other things: gasoline, raw materials...
...could be shown, the bill would pass like a shot; draftees would stay in the Army indefinitely. If no danger could be clearly demonstrated, the bill might fail, the half-baked U.S. Army would lose its half-baked soldiers, would have to start from the beginning again with completely raw recruits...
...their appraisal is that the U.S. is not succeeding in the task of organizing itself to cope with the world of war. They say that it is not mastering the complexity of its industrial life. The U.S. that emerges has shortages in many things-in raw materials, steel, power, transportation-but they argue that it has its greatest shortage in ideas, ideas of what it can do and how it can win. They assert that it has the men who can put the ideas into effect-but that the men have not been called. So far, in the great fields...
Anti-tank guns and other Canadian-made arms are also going into the Lend-Lease pool. Lend-Lease and Treasury last week were seeking some less ambiguous method of aiding Canadian exchange. But most U.S. purchases in Canada are of raw materials and parts, which are processed in the U.S. before going free to Britain. They are cogs in a continental arms factory of which the U.S. is banker...