Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baseball, though superficially it looks simple, is in fact in its subtleties and finer points by no manner of means easy to understand. To watch it is to be almost as much mystified as on first entering a tennis court; but if much is hidden, the raw spectator can at least catch a spark of excitement from his instructed fellows, and the catching and throwing are always patent miracles of skill...
Production of food, clothing, fuel, raw materials and chemicals; manufacture of machines, weapons, ships, planes, parts (including packing boxes and paper); services such as running communications and transportation, keeping the people informed by newspapers, magazines, radio and cinema, heating and lighting homes, caring for the people's health and safety. Draft Boss Major General Lewis Hershey admitted that a 26-year-old soda jerker could be given a deferment if he was the only one in the community...
...China from 400 million to 600. This "will raise economic and political problems which cannot be solved within the political structures built up by Europe during its period of growth and dominance. Either we must organize the world ... so that the inevitable and desirable needs of peoples for raw materials, etc. can be met ... or we must look forward to periodical and devastating explosions such as we are now having...
...poorly organized few freshmen know what he is driving at.") In his third book, The Need for Constitutional Reform, he boldly proposed to make over the U.S. by scrapping the states, setting up ten regional "commonwealths" along with a gigantic government holding company to help run utilities and raw material industries...
...interventionist when World War II began, he told Harvard students that war was not much worse than "crossing the traffic in Harvard Square." In 1940 Dr. Elliott went to Washington as consultant for the National Defense Advisory Commission; the next year he became OPM's raw materials expert, loudly urged stockpiling of tin, rubber, etc. He rightly predicted that the U.S. might soon be cut off by Japan from its chief supply sources. Surviving the transmutation of 0PM into WPB, he became its chief of Stockpiling and Transportation. So good was his stockpiling job that WPB is now worrying...