Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routine gesture of freezing U.S. and British assets, but Finance Minister Masatsune Ogura explained carefully that Japan would use economic measures against the democracies only in retaliation, would, pending further developments, continue to pay interest on Japanese dollar bonds. He added that Japan is blessed with an abundance of raw materials...
...areas they intend to organize as exclusively raw-material and agricultural domains of the Reich, e.g., Poland and Rumania, the Nazis close all factories not engaged in extracting natural products. The closed factories' machinery is sent to the Reich...
...ceiling set maximum prices at about 15% less than late June levels, pegged print cloth at 39? a lb. Manufacturers, who said this made no allowance for higher costs of raw cotton and labor, simply refused to sell. Grass grew in Worth Street...
Robert E. McConnell, emergency-conscious chief of OPM's Conservation & Substitution Section, made a list of 16 important industrial raw materials, with the ratio of apparent civilian demands to available supply (after defense needs) at month's beginning...
...will spend all its time at the job, with no pay but lots of duties. Some of them: to tell the Government what kind of defense work each U.S. auto company can best handle; to transmit the Government's munitions plans and requirements to the industry; to allocate raw materials for both defense and automobile production. Opposite it, running things for the Government, will be an OPM section headed by stocky James S. Adams, a Colgate-Palmolive-Peet vice president who now works for John D. Diggers...