Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some dock operators fought hard against the settlement, finally gave in at the insistence of the hard-hit Matson Navigation Co. (with 18 freighters and the luxury liner Lurline immobilized) and sugar planters (plagued by $61 million worth of raw sugar piled up in the islands). The strike had cost the islands an estimated $100 million loss in business and wages. Even with the settlement accepted by both sides, Hawaiians had to wait a while before normal shipping was resumed: the union insisted on clearing up some fringe issues before letting its stevedores go back to work...
...through in several places. The trickle of cargo that had begun when the territorial government seized the docks seven weeks ago was growing to a stream. Freighters arrived and unloaded autos, Christmas tinsel, cattle feed, canned soup and nylons, left the same day with their holds crammed with bagged raw sugar and cases of pineapple. But when the pineapple-laden freighters hit the U.S. West Coast, their "hot" cargoes found a warm reception from Bridges' longshoremen. At The Dalles, Ore., on the Columbia River, one skipper abandoned efforts to unload his cargo after Bridges' men mauled a pick...
...importers of British raw materials and goods cheered the devaluation of the British pound to $2.80 (see INTERNATIONAL). Prices of British goods in the U.S. had been far too high; now they began to tumble. Fergus Motors, a Manhattan importer of British cars, slashed the price of the Austin automobile from $1,595 to $1,275, trimmed all other makes 20%. Rolls-Royce dealers trimmed that $20,000 job to $15,000. Dunhill's also jumped aboard, cut British pipes and cigarette cases 20%. The prices of British wool, rubber, cocoa and other commodities from sterling areas slumped...
...year barter agreement between the Manchurian comrades and the Russian comrades. It will swap Manchurian soybeans and other raw stuffs for Russian machinery...
...Increased stockpiling by the U.S. of strategic raw materials from the sterling area, particularly tin and rubber from Malaya-to be bought with dollars...