Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finding this raw material quickly and completely demands patience, imagination and a real knowledge of the resources of the morgue each librarian is responsible for. Their work, however, would be painfully handicapped if the morgue were left to sprout at will. To keep it vigorous, its files have to be constantly pruned of dead material. For example, although some 600 new names are added to the biography file every month, an equal number of folders whose subjects are no longer of news interest are weeded out - illustrative, perhaps, of a journalistic axiom that it takes a very staunch, or lucky...
...coke ovens unaffected by the coal bill, pig iron and most steel ingot manufacture, heavy rolling mills and some finishing plants. Just where the line can or will be drawn is a question. Meantime, the Government will appoint a Steel Control Board to oversee the industry and insure raw materials supply, and may carry out modernization schemes taken from the industry's own plan...
...same way, all retailers and many manufacturers were being squeezed by upsurging commodity prices. Corn syrup and starch were up 25%. Raw cotton prices continued to edge up. So did corn, at $2.27, only 9? below the 1927 record price. What would stop the commodity rises, short of OPA, in the face of the enormous demand for food...
...these plants, and many another shoe factory, may soon face competition from the nationalized plant at Zlin. Though many of Zlin's shoes are now going to Russia in exchange for raw materials, Bata is also exporting to Sweden and Balkan countries. And buyers from the U.S., who once bought 40% of Bata's shoes, have already descended on Zlin. But Bata has no shoes for the U.S. as yet, and does not know when it will have. When it does, Bata may find it much harder to undersell U.S. shoemakers. Since 1939, the retail price of Bata...
Though many a New Englander will be outraged and incredulous to hear it, starting a meal with raw clams is risky. Clams contain a powerful enzyme that destroys much of the vitamin B-1 in other foods. (If you must eat clams, have them cooked -it destroys the enzyme-or compensate with extra B-1 in the rest of the meal...