Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Energy Commission to be appointed by the President would have power to seize property needed to develop atomic energy, to control raw materials entering the process, to forbid or subsidize private research, to direct Government research. Stiff penalties, ranging up to 30 years in prison, were provided for infractions of the commission's rulings...
...appear in paintings like Time Has Stratified Eternity are derived from ancient Mayan and Tarascan art forms. To 20th-Century eyes they look more like something seen through a microscope. Though they seem easy, Mérida gets his striking half-old, half-new effects after painstaking study; the raw, vivid colors are invariably surprising, and the figures, however grotesque, seem very much alive. Some of the paintings were the result of a visit to Texas. "The land there is as flat as a sea," says Mérida. "The sky eats men and houses alike. It is the most...
...shipping to maintain her low standard of living; now only 420,000 tons are left. There are no oil reserves left, only 5,000 tons of cotton, only 40,000 bales of wool and only 180,000 tons of steel. Where will Japan, a great processor nation, get raw materials...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, in summing up the discussion, reaffirmed Professor Bridgman's position, declaring that "the raw materials needed for the atomic bomb's manufacture are so widely distributed that control at the production stage rather than in the laboratory is absolutely necessary. It is either one world or no world at all," he concluded...
...Public Be Damned. With a rueful bow to the powerful cotton-bloc lobby, the Department of Agriculture last week lifted the parity price for raw cotton to a new high of 21.58? a Ib.-the dizziest peak since 1920. The Department was forced to boost the price under the Bankhead Amendment, which requires adjustment of the parity price. Uultimately (and at pyramided price increases) this sop to cotton growers' inefficiency will be passed on to the consumer...