Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Isador Lubin, who recently toured occupied areas in Germany, was known to favor a strict settlement by which Germany would pay heavily in raw materials and even food...
...process of liberation, France's transportation system was crippled. After long undermaintenance, France's machinery needed major repairs. And the Allied military effort prevented major diversions for repairs, fuel or raw material. In the Paris area half the workers were unemployed. Germany had kept Frenchmen reasonably well by making them work for her. But the Allies had not yet found a way to let France work, even for them...
...Albert Forster of Seaham, county of Durham, had prompted these observations by a letter to the Lancet on the mild nutritional disease common in Britain's "one-ration-book households." Women living alone often do not get enough meat and fruit, fail to eat raw vegetables. Many would rather just have a meal of tea, bread and margarine than bother with vegetables...
Exercise and Creosote. Never strong (he lived for years on milk, raw eggs and whiskey), he contracted tuberculosis, but refused to go to a healthier climate until he had finished Looking Backward's sequel, Equality. In Colorado, the current treatment-exercise and creosote-further weakened him. He returned to Chicopee Falls, managed to walk from the carriage to the rocking chair on the front porch, slumped into it, said "Thank God I'm home." A month later, on May 22, 1898, he died...
...iron. In theory, this $60-odd million markup was simply a bookkeeping transaction; most steel companies make their own pig iron, thus will bill themselves for the added cost. But in good bookkeeping practice, this big hike in the cost of steels' raw material must be translated into higher costs of the finished product...