Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike TNT, which calls for ammonia, sulfuric and nitric acids and toluene, hexamine requires no critical materials. Its basic raw ingredients are coke, air and water. Total production in U.S. in '1941 was 4,000,000 lb. New factories built since then have multiplied that output many times. But before war came, hexamine was a minor industrial product. Its chief uses then were in the manufacture of plastics and as an ingredient in an antiseptic for the urinary tract...
With Free China cut off from the sea and from Allied resources to the west, the threat to Chungking in this sense is real. In the capital, little people assessed it in their own way. The price of rice rose immediately and sharply, raw cotton reached the equivalent of $2.50 (U.S.) a pound...
This did not mean that they had been inordinately greedy. Commented PAB Chairman Maurice Karker: high productiveness of labor, fine supervision, improved flow of raw materials, inexperience with costs and materials make many a company an unwitting profiteer. Only 10% objected to PAB's excisions. In some cases companies had bid high to protect them selves from unknown costs on unfamiliar products. In many cases the growing volume of orders and the experience gained in manufacture enabled companies to make huge unforeseen savings. In a few cases the contract price was figured on the costs of manufacturing a given...
...delay in production of many war materials, delay in shipping goods already produced. Logansport, Ind. has five plants with war contracts; all had to be shut down. Four war plants in the St. Louis area, including Atlas Powder Co.'s great TNT plant, were closed either because incoming raw materials did not arrive or because water entered the buildings. In Arkansas the Big Inch broke, reducing the East's oil supplies even more (see p. 18). At Dupo, Ill., near St. Louis, one of the nation's largest freight yards (8,000 cars move there daily...
...last Friday's fights the hottest bout was between two raw rookies, one from Philadelphia, the other from Detroit. Neither had ever boxed before, and they hammered each other with haymakers for four rounds to a draw (necessitating a return match this week). But the loudest yells were for a heavyweight, Private Clarence Bressett of the notoriously vociferous cannon company, who, though ten pounds lighter than his opponent, knocked him clear across the ring with a right uppercut that sounded like the explosion of a 60-mm. mortar shell...