Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent severe decline in prices of raw materials shows clearly the wisdom of setting up reserves to protect the company during such periods of violently fluctuating costs. If fats and oils should decline to around 10? a pound, as they easily could, the entire reserve would be used...
...also displayed a somewhat elementary sense of humor. His favorite butt was the cook; he likes to remember creeping into the kitchen to surprise her by hiding a raw apple within one of her roasted chickens. His humor has not grown much more sophisticated. Recently, when asked why he had gone to see the Hollywood version of the Hemingway story The Killers, he replied: "I heard those gangsters had found a new way of making money...
...best die-away officialese, Cripps had explained what might happen next: "If it becomes necessary to cut our dollar imports further, we shall be almost bound to have to cut raw materials. That will undoubtedly cause inconvenience." This characteristically deadpan remark was British understatement with a vengeance. One of the many things Cripps did not say-though implicit in what he said-is that one ultimate method of closing a trade gap is starving to death...
...self-help and mutual aid laid down in the Paris report. Bilateral pacts with individual nations would commit each participant to 1) increase production (particularly in steel, coal, transport and food); 2) stabilize its currency; 3) cut tariff walls; 4) dig up hoarded assets; and 5) make strategic raw materials available...
With democratizing legislation on the books and the end of the war crimes trials in sight, SCAP officials began to do some hardheaded thinking. Japan's mired economy, which would sink into complete bankruptcy if it were not for American food and raw materials, had to be headed on a new road leading toward economic self-sufficiency. SCAP wanted a balanced budget, which Katayama had not been able to achieve. Heavier taxes, higher government commodity prices would be necessary. Social Democrats boggled. The crisis came at a party convention last month. Left-wingers voted against continued support...