Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than the average Japanese eats in a year. Yet this delicious combination of sliced beef and vegetables is immensely popular in Japan today and is unquestionably the most famous Japanese food. The Rashomon serves it as it is served in Japan: a large platter of attractively arranged slices of raw beef and various vegetables is brought to the table with an electric skillet in which the ingredients are cooked. Patrons are even invited to manage the operation themselves, and a sukiyaki dinner can thus be much fun for several persons...
Material Advantage. Though U.S. wages are higher, raw materials, fuel and power are more expensive overseas. Smaller markets and shorter production runs abroad also make for higher fixed expenses. It costs the H. J. Heinz Co. just as much to produce a can of beans in Britain as in the U.S.: labor is cheaper but cans and raw beans are costlier in Britain. The European worker is less productive than his U.S. counterpart because he generally has less training and fewer machines to work with. Producing a ton of finished steel takes 21⅔ man-hours in France...
...Feathers, opium, castor oil, talc, sapphire, iodine, raw silk, and whale...
...reduce its imports of Japanese textiles. In Washington last week, a delegation of Japanese businessmen testified that if the U.S. adopts President Kennedy's proposal to put an 8½? per pound surcharge on imported cotton textiles, Japan will reduce its heavy purchases of U.S. raw cotton...
...biggest Soviet blast produced nearly 60 megatons-and it could easily have gone well over 100 megatons if the Russians had not muffled the explosion by encasing the bomb in lead instead of raw uranium. More important, they made vast improvements in the vital weight-yield ratios of their nuclear weapons. The tests opened the way for the Russians to develop nuclear warheads for their missiles that will be much more powerful than the warhead on the Titan II, the biggest U.S. missile, which has a punch of less than 10 megatons. The Russians also developed fission triggers for their...