Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western railroads get the worst of this arrangement. In the U.S., the heaviest flow of bulk-product rail traffie moves from West to East, as Western states ship their grains and other raw materials eastward for finishing. Once a Western-owned boxcar has ar rived in, say, New York, an Eastern operator simply takes it over and keeps it-paying that nominal rental fee dictated by the Association of American Railroads. The two lines currently hardest hit by this system are the Great Northern, which owns 22,800 boxcars but now has only about 48% of that number...
Alinsky's current, and curiously oldfashioned, theory is that the federal war on poverty is being used "to suffocate militant leadership that might threaten the Establishment." Such leadership among the poor themselves, says Alinsky, is their only real solution, and he incites it, as he acknowledges, by "rubbing raw the sores of discontent." Last week, following Alinsky's descent on Kansas City, the Missouri metropolis was sore all over. "Never in the 35 years that I have lived here," said one resident, "have I seen this town so torn by an issue...
Still, Rumania's basically nationalist example has had a rattling effect throughout the East. COMECON has come under increasing attack from many of its members, who realize that Russia has been buying them cheap for 17 years. Since Russia supplies roughly 70% of the group's raw materials, and distances are frequently enormous (it is 2,000 miles from the Ural bauxite mines to Prague), Soviet prices are often higher than the world average...
...week, boasting a season's record of 23 wins, five losses and a tie, Tech played one last game-against Michigan State, a team it already had beaten twice before at Houghton. Only this time the game was in East Lansing, Mich. No nickels, dimes and firecrackers, no raw eggs and rotten fish. The arena was even heated. The homesick Huskies lost...
...itself on tourism and an economic mixture of goats and grapes, fish and ships. More recently, the country has tried hard to develop modern industry, has more than tripled industrial exports to $25 million in the past five years. All along, a valuable asset lay hidden: bauxite, the basic raw material from which aluminum is made. Now a French-Greek-American combine called Aluminum of Greece has built the country's largest plant, a $135 million factory on the Bay of Antikyra in the shadow of Mount Parnassus. The plant not only brings Greece a whole new industry, aluminum...