Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order applied only to unemployed workers, it could be made effective on a large scale only by creating unemployment. Said the New Statesman & Nation: "First . . . labor has got to become unemployed; and as a means of creating unemployment, unessential trades will be denied priority in allocation of fuel and raw materials. In other words, manpower is to be redistributed by inducing over a not yet clearly defined sector of industry, a species of creeping paralysis...
...party to make it, if possible, once again the party of Jackson, Wilson, and Roosevelt. We need independents who will meet the varied legal requirements of the different states for a third party as a hedge against the complete sellout of the present Democratic leadership. We need new political raw material--new candidates for public office. Older men and women who have shied away from politics must step into the battle as candidates, if we are to improve Congress. Young Americans must be encouraged to make careers in public service. No thinking liberal ... can find two dozen members...
...Kram, chief of SCAP's foreign trade economic section, and handsomely housed, shabby little Japanese manufacturers eagerly crowded around businessmen, jotted down gripes about style and quality, hustled back to their factories to make what improvements they could. Another snag was the shortage of raw materials. Those who tried to supply them got no help from SCAP. Example: Gordon Behr, of Los Angeles' Yaras & Co., offered to ship enough coal from the U.S. to assure production of some sheet steel his company wanted to order. But SCAP, constrained by the needs of the still shaky occupation economy, refused...
...first ten days of the fair, $5,700,000 worth of contracts were signed. Germans, who had hoped for much more, were bitter. Said a grey-haired Siemens-Schuckert representative with a saber scar on his cheek: "Our labor productivity is down about 50%, our wages are frozen, our raw material costs are up, and we are expected to sell at a world market price...
...spending is not being done in such noticeably big pieces. Smaller companies in almost every other industry are making small but widespread changes in the industrial landscape. They are building extensions to existing plants or raising new ones in a vast scramble for spacious positions close to power, labor, raw materials, markets, or cheaper tax rates...