Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department got all set last week to stage a full-dress crackdown on Sweden. Though friendly to the Allies, Sweden had continued to send Germany vital raw materials in order to keep her own economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away...
Cockpit to Prison. His left leg was broken and punctured by an ack-ack burst. His back was terribly burned by raw gasoline. The foot of his injured leg was pinned rigidly under the rudder...
...Cotton prices were down. Reason: textile production continues downward despite the 48-hour week established by WMC in May. Daily raw cotton consumption in July was estimated at 35,800 bales-a drop of 12? since last July...
...fewer calories, more vitamins and minerals. Good foods for oldsters: mild cheeses, milk, lean meat, butter, scrambled eggs, macaroni, well-cooked vegetables, stewed fruits, raw bananas. Blacklisted: hard-boiled eggs, raw or smoked meat, raw vegetables, rich cheeses. Dr. Gumpert advises breakfast in bed, a hearty lunch, light supper...
...most thunderous salvo that has welcomed a first novel since Gone With The Wind. It was a "superb achieve ment" to the New York Times and "a beautiful and terrible book" to the Herald Tribune; a "powerful, intense and tre mendous story" to the Chicago Sun; "extraordinary, impressive, raw, vital, brutal and alive" to the San Francisco Chronicle...