Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bombs & Scrap Iron. At most plants, the experts found that the bombs which had been dropped were too light for maximum destruction. Incendiaries were sprinkled only sparingly on the inviting wreckage of fuel dumps. So many bombs were duds that one bomber in six which fought its way from England to Germany and back actually delivered nothing more devastating than a load of scrap iron...
...Scrap Iron. As the magnitude of Denver's coup became apparent-a million people visited the grave every year-certain Wyoming citizens threatened to kidnap Bill. Denver's alarmed citizenry took steps-15 tons of concrete and old railroad iron were laid over the grave...
...week for their Carnegie Hall performance. His singers ranged from white-haired Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 78, who has sung in every one of the choir's 39 Masses, to gangling Hall Drummond, 17, who sang his first Mass last week. Others: Tenor Maurice Bowker, 42, a scrap inspector in the Bethlehem Steel Co.; Miss Lillian Graves, 71, a soprano who also sings tenor and bass at rehearsals to keep busy ("She's a nut about Bach," says Jones); blind Fay Linn, who moved from Philadelphia just to sing in the choir, and learned the soprano text from...
Mantz will save about 75 of his planes to rent to movie companies at $100 to $300 a day, scrap the rest. He estimates that the aluminum alone will bring in $160,000; manufacturers of novelty jewelry will buy the plexiglass for 10? a pound, etc. Mantz hopes to make $1,350,000 on his junk deal. But the Reconstruction Finance Corp. thought that he was a bit optimistic. Its estimate of the scrap value of Mantz's planes...
...novelists are John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls), and John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra). Protest had turned into corrosive petulance or special pleading for the Left. Frustration had replaced anger. No U.S. writer saw U.S. life whole; and even the scrap he saw, he usually saw over the rim of a cocktail glass. The belief grew that U.S. novelists could not write novels...