Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrial Shanghai was sinking fast. In the business not taken over by Japanese, import and export restrictions cut off raw materials and closed markets for the goods which could be manufactured. Cotton mills had reduced their output 30%. The tea and silk trades were at a standstill. U. S. oil companies were grimly bucking a Japanese attempt to establish a monopoly...
Until the latter half of the 19th Century, fruits and vegetables were generally abhorred by U. S. citizens, especially raw. Since cholera raged most fiercely in the delta of the Ganges, and since the Hindus lived largely on fruits and vegetables, some doctors told their patients they could escape the disease by eating only meat and potatoes...
...personal and political freedom comparable with our own. They have demonstrated their intention to treat subject nations as servile inferiors, and have not hidden their contempt for the democratic processes to which we adhere. Their ambitions are not limited to Europe, and they view with covetous eyes the raw materials and the industrial wealth of the American continent...
...have many fundamental factors in our favor as to armament. Our stock piles of raw materials are ample. Our production facilities are greater than these of any possible combination of hestile powers. Our inventive genius in unsurpassed. With such resources we shall have no excuse if our army is not completely motorized, if it does not have the arms of the greatest fire-power, if it does not have planes of the greatest performance and in the greatest numbers...
...miserable Italians dared not light camp fires at night; some subsisted on raw mule meat. They took refuge as they went in churches and mosques, using them as makeshift forts. Neutral military observers said that if only Britain could send enough planes, the Italian Armies might be swept into the Adriatic before Rome could get set for a new offensive. Fascist reinforcements moving up to Pogradec met their pell-melling comrades on the road out of there, turned and fled with them as Pogradec fell. The same thing happened at Moskopole and it looked as though the first stand General...