Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian biologists, H. C. Mittra and K. Mitra, studied the nutritional value of red ants, a delicacy commanding high prices in Indian village markets. The ants, called Hau, are eaten raw. In tests on rats, Mittra & Mitra found that the ants rated high in digestibility. Chemically analyzed, they were rich in carbohydrates and protein. Encouraged by these findings, the Journal suggested studies of other bugs such as head lice and bedbugs, highly fancied by Melanesians...
...This smells like the prewar Congress that voted down all military appropriations and heralded the President as a warmonger. . . . After this thing is over we will elect a Congress that won't give our kids the same raw deal...
World War II made this arrangement impossible, forced President Roosevelt and Prime Minister King to devise the Hyde Park agreement. Under it the U.S. pledged itself to purchase sufficient Canadian raw materials, place enough U.S. contracts in Canada, to balance Canada's purchases in the U.S. This scheme has worked so favorably that Canada is now able to repay the U.S. in her own dollars for U.S.-built extensions to the Northwest airway to Alaska (TIME, March...
...Vlaminck, like all individualists, was irked by artistic schools, even the Fauves. He struck out for himself, began to paint the haunting French townscapes for which he is best known. He also painted flowers whose unusual combination of violence and charm sometimes was achieved by squeezing raw color from the tubes directly onto the canvas...
Brazil's strategic raw materials (mica, quartz crystal, industrial diamonds, manganese, chrome, tantalum) still have an insatiable market at excellent prices. Since foreign manufactures are hard to get, Brazilian factories have most of the domestic market to themselves. New industries have sprung up, old industries have expanded. A big gainer: the textile industry...