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...matter who produces raw materials, they must be sold in the open, capitalist market-in other words, they must be sold for profit. If they are priced too high, they cannot be sold, and the price will have to drop. What good will it do Italy, Japan and Germany to control colonies and supplies of raw materials? Japan excepted, none of them has sufficient capital to develop colonial industries. Yet each is prepared to squander millions on colonial wars, to obtain goods they can already get, from countries with years of experience in producing them...
...husky peasant, the missionary dressed the rotting sores of his wards. Mildly he wrote a brother at home that he felt "some repugnance" in hearing confession of the near-dead, that he scarce knew how to administer Extreme Unction since it involved anointing hands and feet that were "raw wounds...
...into Governor Olson's lap when Senator Schall died after an automobile accident (TIME, Dec. 30). Farmer-Laborite Olson had only to resign as Governor and let his Lieutenant Governor appoint him to the Senate. Being a shrewd politician he knew that such a maneuver would look too raw to his State...
...mechanized cavalry. In the humble opinion of British technicians who today comprise the Tank Corps, it is going to be a rare sight to behold the horsy sons of generations of British cavalrymen becoming in a few months chauffeurs, mechanics and garagemen. "It takes 18 months to train a raw recruit to be a horseman," opined the technicians, "but who knows how long it will take to make anything else out of a horseman...
...this were true the crude, raw North Chinese militarists who for years have sat uneasy saddles, galloping for & against Japan but galloping chiefly for themselves, are in for a new regime at Peiping with every trapping of intellectual subtlety and elegance. Today Chinese students have less use for either than they had in the days when Wu Pei-fu was mastering scholarship and the composition of fragile poems on expensive paper with a jade-handled ink brush...