Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scotsman who has a place at Great Wigborough, Essex. Around three-year-old bomb craters in his fields strange plants had sprouted to a height of seven feet.* Canny Richard Mortimer examined the flora, reported: "The plant can be grown as easily as a common weed, and raw rubber will drip from it when it is cut. Samples of the plant were sent to a chemist. The report came back: 'pure latex.' Each plant yields between one and two ounces of latex; an acre would yield over two tons. The possibilities are stupendous. The center of the rubber...
There were shortages of raw materials, such as rubber and iron; but a thriving smuggling business along Argentina's borders was bringing in rubber. Argentina badly needed heavy machinery; but she is building up light industries and getting along with what heavy stuff she can import. Self-sufficiency seemed almost a reality-and there was always the postwar period when neutrality would cease to be an issue...
During his involuntary Wanderjahr Wissenback crossed frontiers half a dozen times, rode next to German officers in trains. Once he had his picture taken with a cheerful group of Italian soldiers - he has the snapshot to prove it. Food was a problem at times, and Wissenback lived on raw fish and turnips for several days, but he was in fair shape and only a few pounds under weight when he reached his base again...
Westinghouse has solved a delicate problem in electronic tube-making. A steel splinter used to be thrust into each tiny coiled filament for support while it was welded. But removing the steel support afterward was difficult. Now a slender stick of raw spaghetti, turned out to a thousandth-of-an-inch accuracy, takes the steel's place. After the coil is welded, an electric current burns up the spaghetti core in a flash. For this ingenious idea, which cuts filament-assembly time from five minutes to one, Westinghouse Engineer William A. Hayes got a WPB award of Individual Production...
...raw eggs more easily digested than cooked eggs...