Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What will happen now? Junking the Little Steel formula at this point, thus giving millions of workers a pre-election wage raise, would seem too raw a piece of politics to those voters who honestly fear inflation. And if the President sits tight, he may lose labor votes...
...rights, Dewey is on record for speeding up and simplifying the machinery by which it can achieve those rights. In Seattle he reeled off the names of the interlocking and overlapping federal bureaus which now deal with, and delay, every question of labor policy. That he had flicked a raw spot was made clear last week in speeches in the New York Times Hall by Labor Leaders Phil Murray, Robert J. Watt and David B. Robertson, who spoke with anger at having to carry every little problem to a bickering Government...
...slave labor cannot hope to match Allied production. But the war lords are pinning their forlorn hopes on other factors to save them, for years to come: 1) Russian neutrality; 2) geography, which lengthens Allied sup ply lines as it shortens Japan's; 3) stock piles of vital raw materials, high enough to last up to two years; 4) Allied war weariness, and revulsion against casualties heavier than in Europe...
Bride by Mistake (RKO-Radio) had every right to be a perfectly awful mistake, but turns out to be pretty amusing. Its raw material is one of those five-&-dime stories about the sensitive multimillion-heiress (Laraine Day) who, eager to be sure that her lover (Alan Marshal) is not overvaluing the basely fiscal aspects of their relationship, swaps places with her secretary (Marsha Hunt) and all but bangs the pair's heads together. The surprising finished product is the result of the fact that the film is written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, directed by Richard Wallace...
...thin, elastic film which can be used as a surface dressing for burns. It can be impregnated with sulfa drugs or penicillin, will stay pliant and moist while the wound is still raw, so that removing it is not painful. When the wound has healed, the plastic dries and drops off like a scab...