Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injured, by official German counts. On succeeding nights more British bombs fell, more Berliners died, as 100-lb. demolition charges tore down through apartment buildings, workers' houses, mostly again in the southeastern quarters where lie huge Tempelhof Airport and some of Berlin's main food, fuel, raw-material supply lines. As in London, subway service was disrupted. Berlin learned about sleepless nights and haggard mornings-after-and the High Command had some tall explaining...
Then suddenly everybody knew about "poor Porkey." Sportswriters from coast to coast sobbed about the "poor but honest boy" who had been given a raw deal by golf's "stuffed shirts." Every community wanted to see Porky. The Professional Golfers Association had a hard time book ing a tournament unless Oliver was entered...
...still the No. i importer, but now it is also the No. 2 world pulp exporter, second only to Canada. Fortnight ago the Department of Commerce announced U. S. pulp exports in July hit an all-time high of 65,548 tons, nearly six times a year ago. Raw-materials Watchdog Stettinius added that full-year shipments would total 400,000 tons (mostly to the United Kingdom, Latin America and Japan), against 140,000 tons last year...
Belgian economy was also being adapted to Nazi needs. Coal mines and metallurgical plants worked overtime to supply Germany's war machine, but because of a raw-material shortage, other industries in general employed only 20% of their staffs. Chief problems were 1,000,000 refugees to be brought home, and over 1,000,000 unemployed. Thousands without jobs joined labor squads to work in Germany...
...bounce in the rubber market came from the Japanese. In the smelly raw-rubber markets of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya, whence comes 87% of U. S. rubber, Japs have overbid U. S. importers for weeks. Dutch rubber exports to Japan for the first half of 1940 (12,278 tons) were around the largest in history, nearly double those of the first half...