Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every ton of steel manufactured is potential scrap. Big users of steel are big sources of scrap. Railroads, buildings, old automobiles supply immense quantities. Old rails, cars, locomotives, machinery, pipes, automobiles pour into the big scrap yards to be cut or broken up, carefully sorted. Giant shears leisurely chomp a steel freight car into bits. Oxyacetylene torches slice up rail's, girders, beams. "Skull-crackers" shatter cumbersome castings. Twisted sheets and waste are bundled by hydraulic presses. Great electric magnets on overhead cranes pile the fragments into heaps or load them in gondola cars for the blast furnaces...
...would be rash," said the austere London Economist last week, "to predict that America is within sight of general economic recovery, for . . . the forces bearing her down are almost as ineluctable as those which . . . forced her to the peak of prosperity. Nevertheless, there is reason to think the Giant of the West has passed the crisis in his sickness...
...Giant of the West" seemed to agree that he was indeed feeling better last week. He continued to frolic with increasing enthusiasm on his New York Stock Exchange (TIME, Aug. 8). After taking a one-day breathing spell, the market boiled for the rest of the week, stocks & bonds soared. From their Depression lows rail shares (Dow-Jones averages) were up a thumping 116%, industrials 73%, utilities 73%-Bonds rose 17%. Brokerage houses with staffs geared to drowsy 700,000-share days joyously recalled old employes to help handle the fat business of 5,500,000 shares daily. Wall Street...
Destiny. When the "tsaa" shouting buyer makes his purchase, the hog's doom is near. Squinting up with quizzical beady eyes or grunting angrily he is sent running over a long viaduct to the packing house. When he reaches the killing floor he is hoisted up on a giant wheel by his left foot, delivered to a conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes...
While two giant signs "Press on with Hoover,"* were being rolled up and put away and delegates returned to their seats, up stood Lawritz Bernard Sandblast, Oregon delegate, to place Dr. Joseph France of Maryland in nomination. Oregon's preferential primary directed Mr. Sandblast to do this. Just then the amplifying system completely broke down, but here, was what he was supposed to have said: "This stanch Republican [Dr. France] occupies a unique position in our national life. At times he has been called too radical, at others too conservative. He belongs neither to the right wing of greed...