Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither fighter opened up during the course of the scrap and the decision went to Clemmons on the strength of a good boxing performance in the late stages of the third round. Apparently somewhat puzzled in the first round by Fuller's crouching style, Clemmons stood off and threw left jabs. The round went to Fuller by a small margin...
...Western Europe. [But] we have been able to wipe out this deficit by simple cooperation. . . . We have recommended that henceforth no more coke shall be used for heating houses or stoking factory boilers. All available European coke is to go straight into steelmaking. . . . Blast furnaces shall use more scrap. . . . Germany is littered with scrap...
...East Boston, the 33,400-ton battleship, U.S.S. New Mexico, onetime "queen" of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and veteran of two wars, went up for sale as scrap...
...Shipments of finished steel in the first six months of 1947 totaled 31,172,157 tons, more than the industry produced in any other comparable peacetime period, and almost as much as it turned out in all of 1939. Meanwhile, steel scrap prices, having climbed during the past three months to their highest level in 30 years, showed a sign of receding. In the key Pittsburgh area, the price of heavy melting scrap in one large sale dropped $2 a ton, down to $40. The widespread prospects of further drops from recent "fantastic" highs, said the weekly Iron Age, "gives...
...Rebuttal. Industry's argument against the expansionists is based on the economics of production. Because of the scrap shortage, the industry cannot even maintain full use of its present capacity. But the current 85 million-ton production rate, industry points out, is 20 million tons greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce...