Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill will grant absolute priorities to all Government-agency contracts or private industry contracts deemed vital to the defense program. These priorities would obtain all the way down through subcontracts and sub-orders for parts, supplies and raw materials. The bill also grants the President full control over the distribution and allocation of all products and materials whose shortages affect the armament program...
...ease with which moppets grasped economic and quasi-economic ideas, illustrated them with graphic charts and pictures. Examples: > An eighth-grade crayon drawing of an automobile, with tabs that pull out to illustrate the various farm products used in manufacturing a car. > Cartoon "movie" strips of manufacturing processes, from raw material to finished goods. > A play, The Loan Shark, demonstrating possibilities of fraud in loan transactions. > Home budgets worked out by seventh-graders. > An eighth-grade soap sculpture of a peasant tilling his land with a primitive plow. Back of the peasant is a stone wall. A classmate told...
...sovereignty system which accords the right to use economic power irresponsibly has become an anachronism no longer consistent with peace," the Committee declared. "What one nation does with regard to its raw materials, markets, immigration, or money may vitally affect millions elsewhere...
...Raw Cotton__Wool_____Silk____Rayon...
When the first raw conscript soldiers drifted in last fall at Fort Jackson, S.C., Major General Henry D. Russell, in command of the post, was appalled at the number of them who could neither read nor write. Before long he had on his hands some 600 total illiterates. General Russell got in touch with WPA. Result: at Fort Jackson last week elementary classes, taught by WPA teachers, were going full blast, and an Army education program had spread from coast to coast...