Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government bureaucrats were willing to admit that all of these secondary shortages were caused by the ramshackle structure of controls left by the slowly collapsing OPA. OPA could not be blamed for some of the basic shortages caused by 1) abnormal demand and 2) the worldwide shortage of certain raw materials, notably fats & oils for soap...
...Great Books set will include introductory essays by Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Carl Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, plus a cross-index of the world's great ideas and idea-men. An entire building on the Chicago campus is filled with ripe scholars and raw materials for this index. Publication date: 1948. For the first few years Britannica expects an annual sale of 5,000 sets...
...like a man . . . who had been skinned alive. . . . The slightest contact with friendly, well-meaning people got him on the raw to such an extent that he wanted to bite, as a dog that has been run over will bite in its agony any would-be friend. . . . The weaker his position, the more arrogant he became. Very well, let the British help him. They needed him as much as or more than he needed them. But let there be no pretense of friendliness or sentiment about it. The Prime Minister and General Spears were using him, he would use them...
...Born Spirit. The fact was that Quebec was in the throes of industrial revolution. During the war, with plenty of manpower, cheap power and raw materials, Quebec was able to produce in a hurry. She received 38% of the war contracts let in Canada; her manufacturing output jumped from $1 billion to $2.5 billion annually...
...prevent more bungling and shortsightedness, the committee recommended a good dose of efficiency for the armed forces and the Government. Specifically, it called for: a national stockpile of vital raw materials, acquisition of strategic overseas bases now being abandoned, an expanded, more efficient intelligence agency, an up-to-date plan for the immediate mobilization of U.S. industry...