Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pledges Germany might be willing to make, but Leopold III judged it indiscreet for the King of the Belgians to do anything so sensational as visit Adolf Hitler. Last week routine diplomatic procedure to get the best deal Belgium could obtain as quietly as possible climaxed when, a handsome scrap of paper was handed by the German Foreign Minister, portly, grey-mustached Diplomat-of-the-Old-School Baron Constantin von Neurath in Berlin to sleek, smart Belgian Ambassador Viscount Jacques Davignon...
...deflation of last spring's commodity boom, the root of current business troubles. Cash wheat was down from $1.60 to $1.23 per bu.; corn from $1.58 to $1.21 per bu. ; cotton from 15¼? to 8½? per lb.; rubber from 27? to 17¼ per lb.; steel scrap from $23.50 to $18 per ton; cocoa from 13? to 7? per lb.; turpentine from...
...Japanese press, including the English language newspapers, continues to stress obediently that the present scrap, is the "China Incident," not at all a war in any sense of the word. Large space is given to supposed Russian interference which is prolonging the "Incident." The demand has been voiced several times for strengthening of the Cabinet, which admittedly was not created in a strength sufficient to carry on under the present difficulties. Again and again in the press comes the plea that the nation must achieve more unity, that Japan must present a united front to the world, and that...
...water front last week, sinking some 20 ships in the harbor and ruining great piles of exposed goods (see p. 18). No lumber, a prime Pacific Coast export, was moving from the U. S. to either combatant, and Japan, conserving her resources, stopped her huge purchases of U. S. scrap iron, probably anticipating that the war would end before it could be made into munitions. The U. S. cotton farmer who last season sold 1,550,000 bales to Japan, his best customer (China bought only 14,000 bales), had already been warned by the Department of Agriculture...
...least for him to visit Vienna where he trotted about happily in a green Tyrolean hat complete with feather, placing munitions orders. From Vienna he retired to famed Bad Nauheim to rest. But there was no rest for Japanese financiers. Last week they were desperately ordering from abroad not scrap iron but finished steel (more quickly convertible into war materials) and to pay for it they were already beginning to ship abroad quantities of Japan's small store of gold. Internally the Government launched 200,000,000 yen of deficit bonds, announced it would be necessary "to readjust [private...