Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee) had harsh words this week for the way the reconversion program is being run. In its fourth annual report, the committee said flatly that the change to civilian goods is not proceeding as rapidly as it should. There is "delay in announcing and making cutbacks, lack of both raw and semifinished materials and tools, insufficient in formation available for industry to make plans far enough in advance, and lack of manpower in some key places. . . ." The committee laid some of the blame on former OWMBoss Fred Vinson (now Secretary of the Treasury). His office, said the committee, had spent...
...RAW MATERIAL-Oliver La Farge- Houghton Mifflin ($3). "Bumwad Inky," mused the Second Form bully, his eye alight with sudden inspiration as he watched his gawky, bespectacled classmate unpacking, "Bumwad Inky in his bumwad suit...
Readers of this random biography may not be so sure. In throwing together the uncooked condiments of Raw Material, the 44-year-old author of Laughing Boy, Sparks Fly Upward, and The Enemy Gods has plainly been compounding medicine for his own ego. As in a painter's sketchbook, he has drawn the scenes that have caught his fancy: sailing, rowing, his first expedition to the Arizona Indian country, the wonderful new world of New Orleans, where nobody had ever heard of a La Farge or a Grottie and a girl told him frankly, "I like you. I think...
...South Boston, and Idaho-born Dixie Kiefer knew how to handle them. The Ti was ragged at first-she would sometimes zig when she was supposed to zag. Her stack often poured smoke. But she settled down. Soon she was breaking records for launching and recovering planes. The raw kids became sensationally good...
Judge Thurman Arnold and U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark, virtually down to the raw at a politicos' outing near Washington, treated photographers to the kind of pose that was a prewar classic of the silly season...