Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry knew all about the reasons for the slump. They were as obvious as a blast furnace: shortages of manpower, fuel and scrap, and a surplus of new war orders that upset production schedules. There was a new one, too: the weather...
...Scrap. Consumers' inventories of scrap were less than four million tons, nearly as low as in late 1941, when many furnaces went down for lack of scrap...
...cavalry made it, anyhow, and it was more than their vehicles that turned the trick. At Plaridel (junction of Highways 5 and 3) the 37th piled into 500 Japs entrenched there and full of fight. It took a rousing scrap to kill 250 of them, chase off the rest. As the town was secured the cavalry drove in and rolled on. The Buckeye doughboys jeered them...
Autumn. In St. Louis, Dr. and Mrs. Roscoe J. Reeder, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, capitulated, gave the scrap-paper drive ten pounds of love letters...
...night Hugo was entertaining the Duke of Hoven in his Virginia mansion. A dreadful scream rang out. A Negro child had been devoured by a monstrous fox. Nothing remained but a few bones, a pigtail, a pathetic scrap of petticoat. Hugo, Dev and the Duke leapt into the saddle, galloped madly after the fleeing...