Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their cars, but the Fascist Press clarioned "Use your car only for business! On pleasure bent take a train or a bus." Excited schoolchildren, marshaled by their teachers, shrilled "We want no heat in our schoolrooms all winter!" Outside school hours Fascist moppets of both sexes scampered about collecting scrap metal for II Duce. He contributed quantities of bronze busts of himself for melting into bullets. A Royal Duke chipped in three pounds of gold. While priests collected wedding rings for the State, the Archbishop of Milan coined golden words: "God is with Italy and Italy with God! Our soldiers...
...river pebbles in my hands!" Why did 75-year-old retired General Joseph Bardi de Fourtou lend his name as "front" to one of the Stavisky companies? On the stand last week the nervous old General protested his innocence to the point of dragging in, apparently without a scrap of pertinence, French Premier Pierre Laval. "I had complete confidence in Stavisky because so many important persons were mentioned...
...more depressing and discouraging exhibit than the 46th annual American Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture which opens today in the Art Institute has rarely been staged in Chicago. ... If this is American art, let us scrap it and start over."-Eleanor Jewett in the Chicago Tribune...
Last week in the fifth round of its long and litigious effort to tag Aluminum Co. of America as a monopoly, Baush Machine Tool Co. received a sharp and sudden jolt. Most aluminum fabricators can use scrap but the chemistry of the Baush product requires pure ingot aluminum, which the company has to buy abroad (over a 4¢ per Ib. tariff) or from Aluminum Co. of America, sole domestic source. The Baush management regards Aluminum as an unfair enterprise. Aluminum's opinion of Baush was summed up by an Aluminum lawyer who, noting the company's succession of deficits, remarked...
Certainly, the persistent moviegoer is making a mistake if he refuses to accord one of the Charlie Chan in cities series a place in his film scrap book. A trip with a Chan fan, who, like ourselves, will follow him gladly from Boston to Pago Pago, is well worth the slight expense involved...