Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already postponed bids to build four such ships because of the shortage of materials. And it still has on its hands the biggest white elephant of all-the Normandie. Even in her heyday she lost money. Last week the Commission asked for bids to cut her up for scrap, feared that no one would buy her. A West Coast oil company suggested that she be used for bulk storage of oil, but shippers thought the idea impractical...
Trouble on the Rails. But trouble still loomed ahead. The steel industry, now booming along at about 90% of capacity, had only two weeks' supply of scrap on hand, might have to shut some mills soon. The biggest threat was a shortage of the railroad cars on which most of U.S. business rolls. Example: in Auburn, N.Y., International Harvester Co. was producing enough farm machinery to fill 45 freight cars a day, but only two empty cars a day were backing onto its sidings. The tremendous job of moving the bumper crops made the shortage worse. Millions of bushels...
...year-old contractor named Martin Wunderlich, of Jefferson City, Mo. In the largest single surplus sale to an individual, he acquired (for $2,780,000) a whole plainful of Flying Fortresses and other big planes (see cut), 5,540 in all. Like the other buyers he must scrap them...
...humiliation would be less, if you had spared the scrap of respect you could so easily have spared. I have just reckoned that in the past year I have corrected papers for 225 students. Was there really not one who said, "Well, not exactly dull . . . that is . . ."? Or didn't you leave a single one unpolled, so that in your largeness of heart you could have made clear the partiality of your judgment? Think how different the impression if you had given the statistics: Glazier, 225 students: polled, 224--dull. Then I could always have said, "Ah, but if they...
This time it was Tacoma's burly, New Dealish Congressman John M. Coffee, a man who had inveighed with truculent zeal against Franco, scrap for Japan, and big corporations. Nub of the committee's case: Coffee had taken a $2,500 check from Eivind Anderson, a Tacoma contractor, after helping him get a $93,517 wartime construction job at Fort Lewis...