Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flowers, droned through his first speech in six months. World War II, he said, was the "inevitable result of development of world economic and political forces on a basis of monopolistic capitalism. . . . The catastrophe of war might be avoided if it were possible to make periodic redistribution of raw materials and markets. . . . But this is impossible under present conditions of capitalistic development. . . . The Soviet social system is a better form of organization of society than any other non-Soviet social system...
Although the U.S. has hardly a new shirt for its back, and other war-worn nations desperately need cotton goods of all kinds, much of this raw cotton is not going to market. Main reason: it costs too much...
London papers did not mention the fact, but dried eggs and the British loan are closely related. Britons need the $3.75 billion U.S. credit in order to buy food, raw materials and machinery during the next five years of reconstruction. But neither their leaders nor the man on the Clapham omnibus, however much their nation needed the dollars, liked the terms on which it got them.. Those at the top did not want to face an uncertain free-trade future. Arch-Imperialist Robert Boothby had orated in the Commons debate: ". . . One mandate which His Majesty's Government never...
...village Commander Moloney saw 500 natives who had been thoroughly bombed, shot at, and finally driven to live like animals in caves. Some of the maimed had raw wounds alive with maggots. All suffered from malnutrition, skin diseases, lice. Yet of the 500 who had been through a nerve-shattering ordeal that drove many a Jap to suicide and many a G.I. into the mental ward, only one Okinawan cracked up.-Psychiatrist Moloney, in the current Psychiatry, jumped to a long conclusion. He figured that Okinawans get a good psychological start in life. Until an Okinawan baby is three...
Cried Mississippi Planter Oscar Johnson, the Council's owlish president: "Cotton can defeat any competitor on today's horizon if it is given equality with that competitor in scientific support, sales pressure and production efficiency." Johnson called upon the raw cotton industry to contribute money and manpower for the attack. It was hinted that as much as $25,000,000 might be spent annually on research alone...