Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record, in a battle of economies uncharted in previous U.S. history, was brilliant. His first job was to provide raw materials. With a speculator's foresight, he bought up a supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain...
...Attempts to iron out production "bugs" and smooth the flow of raw materials. (To succeed at this, Jimmy Byrnes will have to work hard...
Into minds dulled by years of propaganda and on to nerves chewed raw by this winter's bombings, Mussolini rubbed wholly fabricated atrocity stores: U.S. airmen, "bloodthirsty flying gangsters," have been bombing only churches, hospitals and nurseries; fiendish pilots have been dropping lipsticks, ladies' purses, flashlights, pens, pencils, cough drops and candy which explode in innocent and eager Italian hands. There have been broadcasts, press stories and faked newspictures of those supposedly maimed or killed...
...Mikado's factories have fallen far behind in the battle of production. They lack precision tools, raw materials, labor-and Jap labor is not getting enough food...
...raw materials and the foodstuffs could be brought in from conquered lands, but there is not sufficient shipping to move them. The Jap, say the Chinese, is like a man who has very much rice but no rice bowl to eat with...