Word: scraps
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...steel industry's insatiable appetite for scrap was suddenly sated. With scrap piling up in U.S. junk yards, scrap prices on major grades last week fell as much as $1.50 a ton below the ceilings for the first time since April 1941. Scrap dealers had been permitted to charge $1 over the ceilings to even up shipping costs from different parts of the U.S. Last week this "springboard" was disappearing fast...
...steel industry is still operating full blast, chewing up scrap as fast as ever, but buying very little in advance. Steelmen are thinking about steel's future when the U.S. cuts back war production. The break in scrap prices last week was reminiscent of the weakness in scrap prices in the fall...
...Negro battalion stationed at Fort Lawton; the paroled Italians work as gardeners and orderlies in the camp. They also have long had the run of the post exchange, and for the Negro troops that, along with other privileges, was just too much. There was open bad feeling, a small scrap last week when the U.S. troops decided the Italians were getting the best of the PX's beer and cigarets...
...Poland must become a "parliamentary democracy." Its base must be the small farm family. It must undertake a sweeping agrarian reform. Large estates must be cut down to a maximum of 247 acres. Every peasant must farm his own land. Thus Poland would scrap a semifeudal land economy...
...each other's throats with bayonets. The Americans, British and Canadians attacked with auto-rifles, Tommy guns. The Nazis fought back with their quick-firing Schmeisser "burp-guns" and sowed mean little "Bouncing Betty" mines that spring up waist high and burst in a shower of steel scrap when a soldier steps...