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...strike wore on, urchins and a few old men & women prowled through the mounting piles of rubbish, patiently searching for scrap paper, cloth, bits of metal and cigarette butts. Cats & dogs dropped in for tidbits. Not far from the Pantheon, the traditional rendezvous of Roman cats, a spinsterish old woman called pleadingly to her bloated black & white cat, which feasted from a rubbish heap. In a nearby cafe, brawny comrades jeered. The old woman turned on them: "If the poor thing dies from indigestion, you will be to blame, you rebels...
...bargain $1,150, the machines wound up costing $1,400 apiece. The Argentines took only 4,500, claimed that the tractors couldn't even pull a plow. Only four Empire tractors have ever been sold in Argentina, and the current plan is to junk the lot for scrap. Meanwhile, Empire Tractor talks about suing IAPI...
...Scrap Hunt. The first big load of scrap from German battlefields (10,000 tons) arrived in New York City last week. Another 40,000 tons is expected by month's end. To keep the scrap away from speculators, the industry is forming a company to handle all German scrap. In another step to ease the critical shortage, 500 trade association executives will meet this week to launch a nationwide campaign to collect scrap from farms, plants and auto junkyards...
...empty; rivermen are now talking of building oil barges with return-trip deck space for autos. The rest of the traffic is in other bulk products which do not have to be moved rapidly. Downriver, Pittsburgh and Chicago ship steel, the Twin Cities grain. Upriver come cotton, sulphur and scrap from the South, coffee and sisal from Latin America...
...armed services, which have been in an unseemly scrap over functions and prerogatives ever since they were put under one boss 13 months ago, were put in positions where they could carry on the fight under one roof. From its headquarters on Constitution Avenue, the Navy high command last week started moving across the Potomac to join the Army and Air Force in the Pentagon...