Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that riles me is that the 16 men left are the most experienced, highest rated, most capable, and most deserving, yet I have to hold them as "military necessities" because it takes trained machinists, electricians, radiomen, etc. to run these complicated little vessels, not raw draftees out of boot camp. It would be all right if the infernal politicians and radio broadcasters would cease yelping about demobilization and keep off the air and refrain from keeping the men all stirred...
...will take many months and years to repair France's 1,500,000 destroyed buildings, 2,000 wrecked bridges, 2,400 miles of torn railway, and all the other injuries to docks, fields and plain people. Raw materials and manpower are sorely lacking. The harvest (leading crops : wheat and sugar beets) has suffered from drought and from the thousands of still-buried German land mines. Inflation corrodes all progress and apparently will not be banished until the franc is devalued, a measure from which officialdom shies. But, de spite the vast inertia which grips France's economy...
Then Wilson gave Alcoa's solution. It offered to buy or lease the Government's Hurricane Creek, Ark., biggest U.S. alumina plant, make and sell alumina (raw material for aluminum) to anyone who wanted it at a price, which the Government would...
...page report to the Allied Control Council, owlish Professor Calvin Hoover argued: 1) a minimum German living standard equal to the European average was required (not merely allowed) by the Potsdam terms; 2) in order to maintain this standard, Germany must import food and raw materials, export industrial products; 3) Germany's industrial exports must be in the same categories (steel, chemicals) as her prewar exports. On these premises, Hoover's report first proposed an annual German steel production of 6.8 million tons, later raised this to 10 million. The British are willing to see Germany produce...
Industry lacked raw materials and transport. But production was picking up. Coal mines were operating at a third of capacity. On the farms the harvest was good-a ray of hope for a nation that expects a hungry winter. Everywhere the people-farmers, workers, professionals, politicians-busily organized into cooperatives, unions, guilds, blocs, all woven into a Government-controlled...