Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the moment came. Surrounded by 30 yes-men of the United Mine Workers' executive council, Lewis grabbed a scraggly scrap of paper and a blue pencil. He wrote...
...deal, the biggest in steel industry history, Bethlehem Steel Corp. would get enough scrap to keep its five eastern plants running for at least four months. The only trick was to get the scrap to the U.S. from the jungles of 16 far Pacific islands, where it lies among great dumps of war surplus. But Bethlehem Steel, which had contracted to pay $30,000,000 for the scrap, hoped to get the first shipload in a month. To the scrap-starved steel industry, it could not come too soon...
...even Bethlehem Steel was sure how much it had bought. It hoped to get 1,000,000 tons, and might get double that, although it would take more than a year to haul that much to the U.S. There were thousands of tons of scrap such as landing mats and vehicles abandoned by the U.S. Army & Navy at war's end. This war surplus property, about an estimated $500,000,000 when it was new, had been turned over to China by the U.S. to pay a $174,000,000 reverse Lend-Lease debt. China had moved some...
...instead of the present 26 passengers, and only 800 gallons of gasoline. In the air it could get more gasoline from a tanker and fly toward Dakar, where another tanker would give it enough fuel to fly on to Natal. The airline could collect 18 extra fares and scrap its expensive Dakar base (passengers would be spared the yellow-fever shots required for a stop at Dakar...
...first time since before the war, a term will begin next February without a single new face making an appearance in Memorial Hall. After a long decline and fall, the wartime mid-year admittance system has finally found its way to the scrap heap. Although 400 Seniors will leave College for the last time, not a single Freshman or returning veteran will be on hand to replace them. It might seem that now all those long-suffering forced commuters and unHoused upperclassmen might get a chance for a room along the River. But, sad to relate, that...