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...recommended that the application be turned down. He said the road should be a profitable operation, but was actually trying to lose money. At Morenci, it had allowed its tracks to be torn up and given its right of way to the New York Central. (The owner, a Columbus scrap-metal firm, said it had been ordered out for want of a franchise.) The owners' real object, said the examiner, was to go out of business so that its trackage, bought for only $33,-450 in 1933, could be sold as scrap...
...sseldorf, the Ruhr's money and fashion capital, is drab and desolate. But by night, scrap dealers and black marketeers crowd into such slick cellar restaurants as the Goldene Treppe (Golden Staircase), where they dine on smoked salmon and duck at $12 a meal, and into such cafés as the Allotria (Tomfoolery), where they jitterbug to Bel Mir Bist Du Schön with heavily rouged hostesses known in Germany as Animierdamen-"animation ladies...
...improvement in earnings and little in service. Passengers still had to line up for the trains, were often still packed in cars as tightly as books in a case. The railroad, which now owes the Pennsy $53 million, was far from worthless. "Even if it were sold for scrap," said a Pennsy official, "it would bring $65 million...
...Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corp. was importing scrap metal from a country that once bought a lot of it from the U.S.: Japan...
...equipment workers began streaming out of International Harvester's big plant, some 70 U.A.W. members were waiting at the gates with organizing leaflets. Local F.E.W. bosses pulled their workers back inside; when they came out again, they came out swinging-crowbars, steel hinges, and slabs of scrap iron...