Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, said Friday that we must "begin control of the atomic bomb at the source of the raw material." Recently elected president of the YMCA's National Council, Mather declared at their forty-fifth national convention that collaboration by ten nations that control the supply of uranium would prevent atomic warfare...
There are other elementary needs. Clothing is desperately short; raw cotton is needed for the surviving textile plants. Transport has to be repaired: river and coastal shipping is down to 100,000 tons from the prewar 1,500,000; railway coverage has shrunk to a fourth of the prewar meager 16,000 miles. Broken dikes must be mended, whole cities rehoused, chronic inflation checked...
...school (her I.Q.: 185); at eleven she had written 100 piano compositions. Most of her friends, she says, are grownups. Her Negro novelist father, George Schuyler (Black-No-More, Slaves Today) and her white Texas-born mother used to credit her genius to such things as her diet of raw meat, but now she is a vegetarian for what she calls "esthetic reasons...
Defeat for OPA? Having made these strategic retreats and truces, Stabilizer Bowles made his stand against the toughest enemy of all-the cotton bloc. OPA fears that the soaring price of raw cotton will wreck its low-cost clothing program. But Bowles was badly mauled by cotton patriots two months ago when he tried to put a ceiling on cotton, the only basic commodity without one. This time he tried a flank attack...
...accord was reached on the critical matter of exchange of raw materials and food between the U.S. and Russian zones, nor in establishing a unified currency, telephone and telegraph communications. Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, the Soviet negotiator, had scowlingly refused even to discuss the issue of removal of machinery from Korea...