Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figure! More, he is A GREAT DRAMATIC FIGURE." Gandhi to Lancashire, Climax of the Gandhi week was the Mahatma's pilgrimage to cotton-spinning, overproducing Lancashire. Intensely practical, Mr. Gandhi had no idealistic notion that he could relieve unemployment in this distressed British area by inducing capitalists to scrap their textile machinery, or unemployed workers to adopt the hand loom. What the small brown man was after was to drive a shrewd bargain in business-plus-politics. Before leaving London in a third-class smoking compartment, Non-Smoker Gandhi let it be known that if the powerful industrialists...
...Harvard University Instrumental Clubs has more of a job than to preserve itself," stated D. C. Gates '26, chairman of the Graduates Committee in a special plea to the officers and members of the club. "In recent years traditions have been dropped, scrap books and files have not been kept up." Continuing, he writes that it is the duty of the incoming officers to bear the responsibility, and to get after the schools and fellow college mates, for the club should "set the torch and inspire others to learn the art and pleasure of creative work in socializing music...
...than the left. First to emerge from the sheltering shell after a fright is the right head. That head usually makes the first snatch at food. Food always causes a contention between the heads. One tries to pull food from the other. They tug until the fly, cricket, or scrap of meat tears apart...
Candy, coal and chemicals, soap and scrap iron, fertilizer, leather, glass, paper, old rubber and garden truck were some of the things Interstate Commerce Commissioners in Washington pondered last week when opponents of the railroads' petition for a 15% freight rate increase began to present their rapid-fire testimony (TIME, July 27, Aug. 3). Shippers and manufacturers popped up and down in the witness stand to oppose Ex Parte 103 faster than the Press could keep track of them. The gist of their argument: if rail rates went up they, the rate payers, would divert more & more of their...
...mental attitude "engendered by the performance of the securities markets" was blamed by Iron Age last fortnight for the slackening of steel demand. Production last week was averaging a shade under 40% of capacity against 41% the week before, 70% in the same week last year. Scrap steel prices reached the lowest levels last week since December 1914. At the end of May 105 blast furnaces were in operation, a loss of eight for the month, and only 33.4% of the total. The course of the automobile industry is expected to affect vitally future steel operations...