Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report, Britons' standard of living at year's end will be "appreciably, but not disastrously" lower than last year's. Without such aid, Britain would be flat broke (in terms of dollars). Food rations would have to be cut to near-starvation levels. Imports of raw materials would have to be slashed, causing mass unemployment. Britain's whole industrial machine would begin to run down...
...trade for the U.S.-British occupation economy, upped the period foreign businessmen are allowed to stay from 15 to 30 days during any six-month period. It also promised them comfortable hotels, good food, taxis, and help in bartering with the Germans. The businessmen can send in food and raw materials in return for finished or semi-manufactured goods...
Helsinki has virtually no foreign merchandise. All foreign exchange has been hoarded to buy machinery and raw materials. The people, who are perhaps Europe's hardest working, have been knocking themselves out trying to keep ahead of the Soviet reparations program, to give the Russians no excuse for interfering...
...older than she looks and ringleader of the entire dope chain. After a quick hop to Egypt and a climb up a precipitous Red Sea cliff, he discovers what he is looking for, a freshly harvested poppy field disguised as a rose plantation. And from there he follows the raw opium across the Atlantic, finally closing in on the whole racket in a tense battle outside New York harbor...
Boeuf a la tartare is what fancy restaurants call raw hamburger. Some people like it that way. Some people distrust all this "processing" of news described above. They want their facts raw...