Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Cabot Lodge, his opponent in the Senate race, rightly could and did say last week: "More than a year after the end of the war, we confront shortages of sugar, soap, white shirts, clothes for children, while newspapers tell us of factories closing down for lack of raw materials and of automobile companies scrapping their plans to expand. All this in a country which persists in shipping large quantities of many much-desired articles to a country like Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia, in which our own citizens and other friends of human freedom, such as Archbishop Stepinac, have...
...Hessians beaten at Trenton; these were seasoned and loyal troops. From a striking force of perhaps 2,500 men, Washington detached a skeleton brigade led by General Hugh Mercer to destroy the bridge over Stony Brook. But it was too late. The British regulars shattered and scattered the raw American irregulars, gave Mercer a fatal wound. His panicked men infected Washington's main body...
Piles for Power. The scientists who dominate the raw and regimented city are not relying on missionaries alone. They are giving the Atomic Age a mighty shove by designing a power-producing pile, the most promising peacetime application of nucleonics...
...trick is done by shooting through the food a beam of ultra-high frequency radio energy from a magnetron, the tube which powered many wartime radars. The waves make the molecules in the raw food dance back & forth three billion times a second. Their motion generates heat. In seconds, the food gets hot. There is no waiting for the heat to seep in slowly, by conduction, from the surface...
...cure the "controlled" leather shortage, OWMR Boss John R. Steelman announced that U.S. tanners would be permittee to buy hides in the world market at world prices (almost 90% above OPA ceilings) but they must still sell all products, except leather from imported raw calfskins, at ceiling prices. No tanners could afford to do this. Anyway, the U.S. had waited so long to make up its mind that other nations had bought up nearly all the hides there were...