Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...been a heavy buyer. Some of Director Schwartz's best efforts have been in raising the tone of the trade. Ten years ago it was not uncommon for a steel mill to receive a carload of scrap "top-dressed" with meaty chunks of good steel that concealed a load of bed steads, old fenders, tin cans, other metals and alloys which would ruin a batch of steel. One dealer foisted off a shipment of pipes filled with sand to increase the weight. All scrap is now graded, and priced accordingly. Highest grade is railroad car axles, standard grade...
...factors in the London parley. Putting aside his famed isolationist views, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on the U. S. to take a world lead in the settlement of world problems. Excerpts: "We can't restore confidence in the business world until the vast load of armaments are lifted from the overburdened backs of the people. . . . "Reparations, Debts and armaments are conditions precedent to a restoration of those conditions which would bring prosperity to the American farmer and home. ... If I could purchase the prosperity of the American people by these debts, I would...
...Newark, N. J., a sporting goods clerk showed a customer a hunting rifle, watched him load the gun. The customer pointed the weapon at the clerk, demanded money...
...what promised to be the last day of the session Commander Waters led thousands of his B. E. F. to the Capitol to protest adjournment. Barred from the plaza by a thin line of police, the veterans were at first good-natured and docile. When a truck dumped a load of bricks ordered for fireproofing a sub-basement of the Capitol, they roared with laughter...