Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jinnah's government, living on day-to-day receipts, has tried some desperate salvage measures. It imposed a $5-a-bale export duty on raw jute moving from East Pakistan to the jute mills of Calcutta (in India). The tax violated a temporary free-trade agreement between the dominions. This would probably provoke retaliation from India, which could stop sending all coal and manufactured goods to Pakistan...
...currency standard under which Italian exporters were forced to operate. The government had required them to exchange half of any dollars they earned at the "legal" rate, let them sell the other half in the free (i.e., black) market. But as the exporting manufacturers had to pay for imported raw materials at the black-market rate, the squeeze robbed them of their profits-and their incentive to produce...
...these distant dangers are less fearsome to Italian businessmen than the current dangers of uncontrolled inflation. And the first results have been enough to give them hope that Italy-if provided with U.S. raw materials-may finally have a program that will cure her sick economy. The final success of the program will depend on the skill with which the De Gasperi government can combat the rule-or-ruin tactics of the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). But the program's first success last week was measured by the energy, bordering on fury, with which the Communists were trying...
...Raw Land. Such a performance was an old story to Jesse Clyde Nichols, long-range planner who has expanded a ten-acre plot into the Country Club's 5,000 acres with 10,000 homes and apartments, 17 schools, 15 churches, five golf courses and 50,000 well-heeled residents. Nichols, who has proved himself a top city planner as consultant on scores of real estate developments, holds strong views on city planning and architecture. He habitually forced them on customers and tenants...
Nichols, son of a well-to-do Kansas storekeeper, first learned about neat, compact towns on a trip to Europe. At Harvard he wrote a thesis on the development of raw land. In 1904, with $21,500 put up by farmers, he began to develop raw land himself at Olathe, Kans...