Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times are hard. . . . [Italy] could have remained outside the struggle. As a neutral, she probably would have had great financial and commercial advantages. But Italy . . . had proclaimed her vital rights and placed before the conscience of the world her problems of expansion, raw materials and production. To have confined herself to a neutrality based on monetary gain would have been a definite renunciation of a century-old goal. That was the reason why we launched ourselves ardently into the battle...
...This large demand sent U.S. wool prices up 33% from 1939 before ceilings were clamped on. Now the woolen mills, trapped in a price squeeze between OPA ceilings on finished goods for consumers, and high domestic wool prices, will use more of the enormous stocks of lower-cost Australian raw wool that cram U.S. warehouses...
...have been "treacherously and inhumanly" bombed. Tiny children in uniform are shown being trained to fight. Tokyo, its streets a blaze of light, is obviously sneering at blackouts. Jap propaganda films "prove" that only force pays, that by its victories the nation already possesses sufficient rubber, timber and other raw materials to carry on a war that will wear out the rest of the world...
...hand some of the tragedies of small business. A Rotarian took him to his Shelbyville hosiery mill, which he now called his "graveyard." Of 54 knitting machines, only five were working, and those on odds & ends. Said the millowner: OPA would allow him only 30 days' supply of raw materials, he could not get labor, his business was going to pot, he had spent the whole morning poring over a new OPA ruling on rayon hosiery and its meaning was still not clear. Jim McCord, a good Democrat, looked, nodded. His constituents are exasperated by bureaucratic bungling, are solidly...
...Seventh Army pounded through Sicily it became apparent that this raw army was putting on an even better show than the II Corps had staged in Tunisia. General Sir Harold Alexander himself commented on the excellent performance, said the Americans were "at least 100% better" than six months...