Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...living in our own filth," says John W. Gardner, the new Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. U.S. rivers and streams, like the muddy Missouri, used to be contaminated with nothing worse than silt, some salt, and the acids from mines. Now they are garbage dumps. Raw sewage, scrap paper, ammonia compounds, toxic chemicals, pesticides, oil and grease balls as big as a human fist-these are the unsavory contents of thousands of miles of U.S. waterways...
...Washington School, left dark and without potable water by a widespread power failure, Johnson moved through a noisy, fetid hall where one group of Negroes sat on the floor eating cold pork and beans and raw carrots. He was greeted with cries of "Water! Water! Give us drinking water!" Outside, Johnson, plainly moved by their plight, told Office of Emergency Planning Director Buford Ellington: "You've got to give them some water in there." L.B.J. then asked Mayor Schiro to get every Coca-Cola, Seven-Up and Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in town to rush soft drinks...
...Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the International Monetary Fund-are aimed at preserving Colombia's fading foreign exchange, estimated at $109 million last week. They provide for: 1) preferential exchange rates ranging from 9 to 13.5 pesos per $1 (free rate: 19 pesos per $1) on imported raw materials; 2) a $33 million issue of economic development bonds; 3) a 15% income tax increase for the current year, plus another 5% surcharge for the forced purchase of government bonds; and 4) a tightening of Colombia's notoriously porous tax-collection system...
...days of the Roman Empire, Europe has depended heavily on inland waterways as vital arteries for its economic lifeblood. West Germany's arteries pump the hardest. Along the country's 2,789 miles of navigable rivers and canals last year flowed 184 million tons of goods and raw materials, 27% of the country's total freight traffic. Germany's 7,600 barges carry more total tonnage than those of any other European country (though the neighboring Netherlands transports 66% of its internal commerce by water). This week in Hannover, Federal Transport Minister Hans-Christoph Seebohm will...
...that "traffic predictions have almost always proved too low." Even if inland shipping's share of commerce fails to grow proportionately, says Marquardt, it is still bound to increase in absolute terms as growing factories-in Germany and elsewhere-require ever greater amounts of the ores and bulk raw materials that the slow-chugging barges still carry so economically...