Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor leaders, industrial giants, and various Federal agencies jockey for top spots in the new era of pushbutton prosperity, the small manufacturers cannot even get the material to make the push buttons. Their labor costs rise whenever the powerful unions effect a wage boost, the cost of their raw materials goes up whenever the large corporations break through a price ceiling, and the daily changes in Federal rules multiply their clerical work and overhead costs...
...Atomic Development Authority would pass through a series of stages. First the Authority would be given enough of the U.S. knowledge about uranium to plan its work. At other stages it would survey and obtain effective control of all the world's uranium raw materials, set up its own research organization, take possession of the U.S. uranium-producing plants and uranium stockpiles (but not remove them from the U.S.), build and operate similar p'ants in other nations...
...British, who had hoped to keep party politics out of the Bank & Fund, were rubbed raw by a dozen other differences, e.g., salaries for Fund & Bank officials, the location of headquarters.The British wanted headquarters in the non-political air of New York. The U.S. said Washington...
...result of mismanagement, the ultimate return from sales of surpluses abroad will be only a small fraction of their original cost to U.S. taxpayers. The committee was well aware that the shortage of dollar credits was the chief bar to selling surpluses. So why not swap surpluses for raw materials or other property (embassies and consulates) which the U.S. wants...
Blessed with the superb raw material of what this reviewer considers one of the best comedy teams on record, Paramount has whipped up a drawn-out melange of corny gags and predicaments. No, holds are barred; all the old and faithful chestnuts are dragged out again for further milking. Picture, if you will, Hope dissolving a snowbank with the heat he generates in a love scene, or the ubiquitous Lamour displaying the inevitable sarong amidst the Alaskan snows. And a talking bear complaining that the writers haven't given him any good lines. And so forth...