Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recess time. Congress had not yet faced the question of conscription. But the question was very definitely up. A bill, introduced in the Senate by Nebraska's Burke, looked like a whopping big block of raw material for Congress to work on. Its provisions: 1) to register some 40,000,000 males in the U. S. from 18 to 65; 2) those between 21 and 45, selected as needed, to be given eight months' training and kept as a reservoir from which to fill the ranks of a gigantic Army; 3) saved for home defense would be youths...
...identification with formal democracy; 3) economic understanding and political identification with democracy." Preferred was the third-"if it is possible." The great and all-important economic rub to Course 3 is that coffee is the only thing Brazil exports that the U. S. wants, whereas the Germans want many raw materials, including cotton, from Brazil in exchange for her manufactured goods...
...Washington's stately, white-marble Federal Reserve Building, hurried upstairs to a cool office. Usually he did not leave before 10 p.m. Mr. Stettinius last week quit his $100,000 a-year chairmanship of U. S. Steel to take the payless, possibly thankless job of supplying the raw materials for steeling the U. S. In an identical upstairs office sat Mr. Knudsen, who was last week given leave of absence from the presidency of General Motors Corp., to see that finished planes, guns, uniforms, shells, etc., are turned out at maximum speed and efficiency...
This was Goodrich's way of introducing a new synthetic rubber, patriotically called "Liberty Rubber" or Ameripol (Ameripol-for American raw materials, mostly petroleum; pol-for polymerization, the process of making synthetic rubbers...
...packed up and moved their business to shuttered houses on South Main Street, Vance Avenue, Mulberry Street and thereabouts. In the '305-third decade of his reign-Ed Crump continued to let Memphis go its primrose way. Memphis was sinful, all right, but it was never loud and raw about it. Memphis was the kind of town where the rich, old Second Presbyterian Church could transact its godly business within bottle's throw of a brothel, a saloon, a gambling joint and the Negroes' steamy Beale Street...