Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sufficient supply were only a matter of extracting aluminum from bauxite ore, Mr. Stettinius would not have had to hedge so carefully. Raw aluminum is just the starter: the basic metal must be alloyed, then shaped into different sheets, forgings, castings, etc. for each of aluminum's thousand-&-one uses. Aluminum Co. of America thus may have to supply one kind of tubing for an airplane wing strut, another for the landing gear, yet another for the rudder. Up to now the company has borne this cross with profit and equanimity, has also managed to retain its corner...
...have sustained heavy raw-material losses. A large percentage of our shipping has been sunk...
...over August's average, by Sept. 22 they were up 27%-to a World War II high. The sharpest rise occurred understandably in import necessities: wool tops up 50% in two weeks, shellac up 74% in three. The more representative all-commodity index, reflecting industrial as well as raw commodity prices, reached a peak at 79.5, up only...
Last week General Richardson, his officers, his men, his horses toiled like mules, trying to wangle more than their allotted two divisions in the new Army. The Eighth Cavalry's Troop A night-marched into the desert, taught raw recruits to find their way by moon and stars across the trailless land. Commanding officers slaved at newfangled exercises, learning to use radio and motorcycle communication, use also the squadron of reconnaissance tanks which will be part of each new cavalry division. On the chill, white expanse of the drill ground or in the dank corrals, recruits learned the manual...
...France to Spain. He will have two new 35,000-ton battleships, the Tirpitz and the Bismarck, and other vessels in the North Sea early next year. With these he will try to deliver a knockout blow at our communications so as to prevent us getting the food, the raw materials and airplanes necessary to enable us to continue the war at full strength...