Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women, who are credited with having the shapeliest legs in the world, last week faced the horrifying knowledge that soon they would have to go silk-stockingless. Raw-silk imports from Japan had ended. 0PM had snatched up all available stocks (see p. 57). There was just no more silk for stockings...
...manufacture of those articles, only a trifling percentage of U.S. raw-silk imports has been used but unless substitutes are found the pain of doing without them will not be measured by the quantity of silk they contained...
...boldest move to date, OPM last week marched into the U.S. silk industry, became sole holder, buyer and seller of raw silk. Then it stopped all processing of raw silk (except on Army & Navy orders), put an end to all silk transfers from warehouse to mill...
...total Japanese imports the U.S. normally supplies over 30%, the British Empire about 20%. Already Japan's industry has been slowed down by stoppage of U.S. shipments of scrap, machinery and scarce defense metals. Moreover, the biggest customers for raw silk (see p. 61) and other exports through which Japan gets foreign exchange are also the U.S. ($105,311,000 last year) and Great Britain. In the early part of World War II, Japan found a profitable customer in Germany, which sent its No. 1 traveling salesman, Helmuth Wohlthat, to Tokyo this spring to try to streamline Japanese industry...
...round here.' 'Very awkward,' said Smith." Then Ford looked. "There was no blood or gross mutilation. But the bodies had become part of the debris; they had become one constituent of the many constituents of the mound. They had been crushed and pressed into the decomposed raw material of the five houses...