Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ordered manufacturers to channel all their copper and brass scrap into "normal trade sources," i.e., not into grey market conversion deals...
Autos were not the only items that were going up. In the past two weeks, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics, retail food prices had jumped 2%, with fruits, vegetables and eggs (at a 30-year high) leading the way. Pig iron was up again, and so was scrap steel; half a dozen steel companies had followed U.S. Steel's lead and raised their prices by about...
...Britain's complaint was not that the stockpile was too small, but that the U.S. had set out on a "reckless" stockpiling of everything that was scarce. "American buyers right up to the Pentagon," said one British government consultant, "have been rattling around Europe buying metals from every scrap heap...
Another time, Sullivan thought that all statues should go into the war time scrap drive-works of art included. He then introduced an order in the City Council demanding that the bronze statues in the Germanic Museum he seized and melted into scrap. He sincerely thought he was helping the war effort by this order, but he felt too that statues of German heroes should be melted anyway...
...past five months, said O'Conor, no less than 14,373 tons of materials useful in war-steel products, scrap rubber, transformers, motors, fire engines-had been carried to China from U.S. ports and from occupied Japan. Most of the shipments, O'Conor pointed out, were technically legal, since many of the products were not specifically banned for export. But some shipments, even though legal, were plain dodges of U.S. and Japanese export controls...