Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonna. laughing and slapping each other's backs. "Let's go home!" cried one woman. "The danger is over." While Romans celebrated democracy's victory, swarms of the city's ragged children roamed the streets, tearing down election posters in order to sell them as scrap for a few lire. It was a sharp reminder that the danger was far from over. The victors still had a price to pay for their 18 million anti-Communist votes. The price was land and bread for Italy's workers and peasants...
...immigration program." That put it squarely up to Ottawa. It also got Drew off the hook. Ontario's labor shortage is easing up. Moreover, immigrants are squawking at the poor jobs offered and the appalling housing shortage there. Drew's immigration program seemed headed for the scrap heap anyhow. Now he could blame it on Ottawa...
...make his steel. So, he told the committee, he made a deal with Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to trade finished steel for K-F's pig iron. (He also made another deal, the committee found, with Cincinnati's David J. Joseph Sr., one of the big U.S. scrap dealers. For his scrap, Joseph got 8,254 tons of steel, and a tidy gross profit...
Koons got his steel from K-F at mill cost. But to get it he had to pay over $600,000 for a lot of things K-F wanted to get rid of, e.g., jigs and dies for K-F's abandoned front-wheel-drive auto, aluminum scrap left over from experiments with car bodies. Koons told the committee he lost $500,000 on sale of the tie-in junk. But, through his steel, he netted a $14,000 final profit on the whole deal. The committee got an eye-opening account of how fast steel gets around...
...dozens of Congressmen and Senators continued to cry angrily for a more stringent embargo against Russia; some for a complete halt of all shipments to the U.S.S.R. Thousands of U.S. citizens, who bitterly recalled pre-Pearl Harbor scrap shipments to Japan, agreed wholeheartedly...