Word: raw
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week General Richardson, his officers, his men, his horses toiled like mules, trying to wangle more than their allotted two divisions in the new Army. The Eighth Cavalry's Troop A night-marched into the desert, taught raw recruits to find their way by moon and stars across the trailless land. Commanding officers slaved at newfangled exercises, learning to use radio and motorcycle communication, use also the squadron of reconnaissance tanks which will be part of each new cavalry division. On the chill, white expanse of the drill ground or in the dank corrals, recruits learned the manual...
...France to Spain. He will have two new 35,000-ton battleships, the Tirpitz and the Bismarck, and other vessels in the North Sea early next year. With these he will try to deliver a knockout blow at our communications so as to prevent us getting the food, the raw materials and airplanes necessary to enable us to continue the war at full strength...
Industrial Shanghai was sinking fast. In the business not taken over by Japanese, import and export restrictions cut off raw materials and closed markets for the goods which could be manufactured. Cotton mills had reduced their output 30%. The tea and silk trades were at a standstill. U. S. oil companies were grimly bucking a Japanese attempt to establish a monopoly...
...personal and political freedom comparable with our own. They have demonstrated their intention to treat subject nations as servile inferiors, and have not hidden their contempt for the democratic processes to which we adhere. Their ambitions are not limited to Europe, and they view with covetous eyes the raw materials and the industrial wealth of the American continent...
...have many fundamental factors in our favor as to armament. Our stock piles of raw materials are ample. Our production facilities are greater than these of any possible combination of hestile powers. Our inventive genius in unsurpassed. With such resources we shall have no excuse if our army is not completely motorized, if it does not have the arms of the greatest fire-power, if it does not have planes of the greatest performance and in the greatest numbers...