Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic czar, Howe can grant permits for the importation of manufacturing machinery. He will be able to force Canadian branch plants of U.S. companies (there are 2,000 of them in Canada) to stop importing parts, begin making their own with Canadian raw materials. He will be able to shut any plant that does not cooperate. He will have the power to step up exploitation of Canadian resources. Gold mines, for example, will get a $7-an-ounce subsidy for every ounce they produce over their output in the twelve months ending last June 30. Coal production will be stimulated...
...other currency troubles by a system of "compensation trading." Thus, Swiss-made blades are being exchanged in Italy for tomatoes, asparagus, and strawberries, in Austria for wood, in Czechoslovakia for glass. The goods are then sold in Switzerland for francs and the francs exchanged for U.S. dollars to buy raw materials for Gillette's foreign factories...
...Claverly resident, blaming a "raw" hash patty served in the Union on November 17, was bedded in Stillman the next day with "tremendous pressure" among other symptoms, and recovered the following...
...remain a casual business as long as Harvard remains a university college, as long as the majority of advisers are more concerned with their own research, their own teaching, and their own academic futures than with the fate of their advisees. It will continue to take the College's raw material--and the split, the schizophrenia, the polar extremes inherent in that raw material--and turn it back on its own unequal resources for the important work of planning a Freshman year in college...
Conger taught Winant the requirements of modern warfare-manpower, factory output, raw materials, foodstuffs, and the then almost unknown science of psychological warfare. Winant spent two summers in the Shenandoah Valley, going over Stonewall Jackson's campaigns. Later he paid his own way to Paris and enlisted as a private in the A.E.F. (He came home a squadron commander in the Air Service...