Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed that 91% of British women wear corsets or abdominal belts-or at least would like to. Wartime "utility" garments made of low-priority materials are a painful failure. One result: a "shocking" number of women prefer to use their coupons for outer clothing, wear no underclothes and sleep raw. Some individual comments on the wartime garments...
...insistence upon payments for Lend-Lease. N.A.M. plumped for writing off all Lend-Lease balances over a period of 25 years, with "payment" confined to anticartel agreements, equal access to the world's raw materials, airways...
...payment, Russia will fork out cash and some finished products, and make up the balance by shipping vast stores of raw materials that the U.S. badly needs. Thus the U.S., which will scrape the bottom of its manganese and tungsten deposits in three years, will be able to stockpile these from Russia, along with high-grade molybdenum, chrome, mercury, zinc...
...Economic Administration. The tentative plan is to let U.S. business carry the ball alone, let Russia place her contracts where she wants, and arrange her own credits. Only when the Russians run short of credit would the Federal Government step in and advance funds to be paid off in raw materials...
...must then perfect a commercial process for utilizing low-grade bauxite (Alcoa claims to be trying out such a process now) or rely completely on bauxite imports, mainly from British and Dutch Guiana. This would mean that the U.S. might become a have-not nation in the No. 1 raw material of the light-metal age. The last alternative is to resort to producing alumina from clay or other non-bauxites...