Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report from Washington, "but figures thus far received indicate that . . . the harvest in Europe during 1948 is likely to show an increase over that of the past two years." There were many problems of recovery, like Britain's dollar shortage and the gaping worldwide need for machinery and raw products, that a few days of fine weather could never solve. But if the winter had not insured Europe's recovery, it was certain-as one U.S. Department of Commerce official put it-that the mild weather had at least saved Europe a lot of trouble...
...fact that the U.S. had failed to get across to latinos: that ERP means U.S. dollars in the Latin American pocket. Assuming that Congress approves the ERP program of buying in Latin America, the latinos will be invited to ship something like $1½ billion of foodstuffs and raw materials to Europe by July 1, 1949. Bill Pawley could point to this breakdown...
...heal wounds (TIME, March 13, 1944). They called the germ-killing substance a phytoncide (meaning: a killer derived from plants). Now Food Chemist Edward F. Kohman has found that the active chemical agent in onions is a thioaldehyde, a close relative of the common antiseptic, formaldehyde. Chemist Kohman put raw onions through an ordinary household meat grinder, distilled the onion vapors, put them through a series of chemical tests. In a recent issue of Science, he reported finding about 1/20 of a gram of thioaldehyde in a pound of raw onions...
...exist as such in the onion. More likely, it is produced by the complicated enzyme activity that goes on in the onion when it is cut. Cooking would eliminate it completely; a boiled onion is no more good for a cold than a boiled turnip. But chewing a raw onion might help a cold (it would undoubtedly prevent spread of colds by keeping non-onion eaters away from the cold sufferer...
...came out of profits, as a cushion against a possible loss on inventories. That was double what it set aside for the same purpose for the whole preceding year. In explaining this enormous set-aside, Soapmaker Deupree pointed out that in the 1920-21 recession "the decline in the raw material market actually wiped out the equivalent of a very large part of the firm's invested capital in less than twelve months...