Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese are counting on stockpiles of raw materials and dispersal of war plants to counter Allied bombings. Above all, they rely on their island position and their fertility. Said the missionary: "Japan's population is increasing at the rate of 2,000,000 a year, which means 1,000,000 fresh troops annually. . . . The 3,000,000 recruits acquired since 1941 are as well-trained, tough and fanatical as the old. . . . The Japanese will not collapse suddenly. They still think they can get away with their spoils...
...Visionary. Next day it was Henry Wallace's turn. Having walked the three miles from his Wardman Park apartment hatless in a raw wind, he arrived pink-cheeked and just nine minutes late. He, too, got a cheer from the crowd-his friends, this time. He, too, got quickly to what he believed to be the point...
Administration officials say there is enough manpower to go around, but the shortages are local. Those shortages, which are critical, are now beyond control (see CANADA AT WAR). Various expedients to channel the labor supply-by cutting off raw material to nonessential industries, by ordering draft boards to get tough, by giving pep talks, showing movies, using bluff-have never been adequate and are not adequate now. The U.S. is still larded with the fat of peacetime...
...others: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi, Suwannee River, Powder River, The James, The Hudson, The Sacramento, The Wabash, The Arkansas, The Delaware, The Illinois, The Raw, The Brandywine, The Charles, The Kentucky, The Sangamon, The Allegheny, The Wisconsin, Lower Mississippi, The St. Lawrence, The Chicago, Twin Rivers, The Humboldt, The St. John's, Rivers of the Eastern Shore...
...battle was not yet fully joined; the rising independents had their own problems, too. Where, they mourned, was a new producer to find name players (the real instrument of power in wartime Hollywood) and where the scarce, raw film? And if these should be found, as they can, be, how was the producer to find a Broadway theater to spotlight his pictures for the rest of the country...