Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index for 28 basic commodities was last week only 106.8, less than seven points above pre-war August 1939, and well down from last September's peak of 127.2. Meanwhile the price index of finished manufactured goods held practically level. The industrial raw materials index was 66.5 before the war, 72.3 in September, only 70.8 three weeks ago. Hence most businessmen do not yet fear runaway prices. Actually, they are more alarmed by the idea of price-fixing by the New Deal...
...with her exportable surpluses of agricultural products) would not be able to buy enough from South America (which has mainly agricultural products to sell) to provide her with the money to buy the products of U. S. industry. But Germany (and all Europe), which needs food and raw materials, could pay for them with the industrial products South America lacks. Most disquieting thing about the Reich Minister's argument was that he was obviously telling the truth-not only about Germany's intentions but about the economic situation in which the U. S. finds itself...
From this point on, the novelty of procedure was, in a land of imitation, positively inspirational. Instead of settling down in clublike "Cabinet-forming headquarters," surrounded by seas of steaming tea, trays of raw. fish and rafts of politicians, Prince Konoye simply told the Army and Navy what he stood for and directed them to submit the names of candidates for their ministries. When they did, he summoned three men. The first, onetime president of the monopolistic South Manchuria Railway Yosuke Matsuoka, promptly accepted the ticklish post of Foreign Minister. The second, Director General of Military Aviation Lieut. Gen eral...
Reconstruction. Meanwhile, in Vichy, Petain and his Cabinet methodically set about the task of rebuilding ravaged France. There were shortages of almost everything needed to keep life going: milk and butter, meat, sugar, soap, raw materials in general. Some foods were plentiful, but were withheld from hungry citizens by the breakdown of communications. Virtually all gasoline was in German hands; so were the northern coal mines, undamaged by the Nazi advance. Coffee and other imports were scarce...
...surrender her fleet, within six months. While President Roosevelt's Defense Commission and U. S. industry carry out their own vast mobilization, the Army must: i) list its needs, from quinine to tanks and airplanes; 2) carry out a vast building program; 3) train close to a million raw and semi-expert troops; 4) feed them, doctor them, fit them to the most complicated set of weapons in the history of warfare; 5) educate a citizenry-accustomed to regard its soldiers alternately as romantic heroes or expensive jingoistic nuisances-in what its Army (really a specialized public service like...