Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Open City. A raw, bloody slice of life in Rome under the Nazis (TIME, March...
...more important that the Dutch concentrate on getting back their prewar share of the world's ocean trade, because that would bring foreign exchange to buy raw materials to reconstruct, expand. The U.S. loan negotiations had gone smoothly -$200,000,000, half of it from Washington, half from private U.S. banks. The interest rate, 2¼%, expressed U.S. confidence in The Netherlands' future...
...remained skeptical. We wanted to see the clay from which the powder was made. Then a gaunt woman emerged from another kitchen carrying a half-dozen big chunks of the raw product, weighing altogether perhaps seven or eight pounds. The others looked on quietly. The woman said something to the interpreter. He turned to us and told the amazing reason why she had not shown this hoard of clay sooner: "She was hiding it from the others...
...Arden beauty empire at 691 Fifth Avenue is guarded by a grey-liveried doorman and a red door marked simply, Elizabeth Arden. Inside, and scattered over a labyrinth of seven floors, is the amazing factory where ladies (from 2½ years to 84) go to get remodeled. The raw product is examined, diagnosed and then put on the Arden production line...
Every element and compound can be tagged in this way. Within a few years, tracers should be: 1) marking the progress of raw materials through industrial processes, 2) "banding" bacteria as if they were robins, 3) even following the motion of water deep underground...