Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken off. ¶Wage controls would remain, but Washington worked feverishly on a stabilization formula which would be more flexible than the badly bent "Little Steel" formula. ¶ The 40-hour week would again be standard. That meant an immediate cut in the take-home pay ¶ Controls on raw materials would be lifted completely, except on still critical items, such as tin, rubber, lumber. Industry would be given a green light, but WPB would remain as a sort of umpire to prevent a mad and unseemly scramble. One result: automobile-makers (with WPB blessing) promptly upped their estimates...
...tools of pre-atomic war the U.S. had a headstart that would require at least a generation for any nation to overcome. In atomic war, the advantage was hazardous. Sir James Chadwick, chief British adviser on the atomic bomb, said that any nation with the raw materials could make a bomb in five years without help from...
Howey, who rang the bell with his Iroquois Theater fire scoop (1903) and turned Chicago newspaperdom on its ear by his banner-lined blasting of thieving politicos, has quieted down since the old raw-meat days. In recent years he has been running Hearst's dreary Boston tabloids, the Record and American, in quiet, nice-old-boy fashion. So while some of his greying onetime minions like Burton Rascoe and Charlie MacArthur may have felt a twinge of nostalgia, they could not have been surprised to hear that mellowing Walter Howey's first move on the Sunday-supplement...
...long as war orders have to be met the 'bottleneck' problem will persist. There will be shortages of ... raw materials . . . of one component or another ... of key machines. There will be labor bottlenecks. . . . The task of breaking down these bottlenecks in our complex industrial organization is not insurmountable, but we are now learning that it is difficult and timeconsuming...
...South' white folks . . . only more so." In Cape Town it was a relief to hear the white telephone operator say: "We hope you both have a pleasant visit, and we hope Mr. Robeson comes out soon." She took them to be "the voice of the little people." Blushes & Raw Meat. Africa was full of surprises. The "natives," rigorously segregated in so-called "locations," were ''far more politically aware than my fellow Negroes in America." Eslanda "blushed with shame" when she recalled the Harlem-dweller's mental picture of his "African brothers ... in leopard skins, waving spears...