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...time. On relief, 42-year-old Ben drew $11.40 a week. Their house had no heat except the kitchen stove. "Wasn't fit for animals," observed Pearl wearily. "Every time it rained it rained right into the house." She made what she could from odd jobs. Ben salvaged junk, pawned his coat and whatever else they could do without...
...comes from Asia, 18% from Europe, practically all of it is smelted in the British and Dutch empires. War at sea might cut it off. Already shipments from Singapore have been partly rerouted. The U. S. supply of tin is limited to tin-plate scrap reclaimed from U. S. junk piles, but that yields only about 30% of U. S. needs...
...outbreak of War II, steel manufacturers, inadequately stocked for capacity runs, fearing that war exports would cause a famine of steel scrap, cleared out the junk yards, sent the price of scrap skyrocketing to $22.50 a ton, but capacity production yields a good deal of new scrap, and the mills have already bought sizable supplies. By last week, scrap had not become too plentiful, but mills still in the market were picking it up for as little...
...R.A.F. has all sorts of specialty craft-for submarine searches, advanced training, primary training, transport, dive bombing, freight. Some are junk; some are secret and superb...
...when he was away his generals began plotting to junk the Constitution. Five years after military victory the new republics were chasing after dictators faster than Bolívar could run. When Colombia started a counterrevolution and his beloved General Sucre was assassinated Bolívar wrote: "All who have served the Revolution have ploughed...