Word: pour
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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...
...Pour it on, Jack!" shouted the crowd...
...Whoopee! Pour...
...existing social order. . . . Mr. Garner's measures would simply make capitalism work somewhat more badly than it is now working. . . . He is the sort of man who, finding his car stalled on the road, would think not of repairing the damage or of obtaining a new car. He would pour oats into the gas tank, give the old car a kick and expect it to start running...
...holders he offered $25,000,000 in first mortgage bonds of New Jersey Power & Light Co., A. G. & E. controlled. Each security-owner was expected to buy $100 worth of bonds at a 20% discount on the generous rate of $10 down and $10 monthly. Should subscriptions fail to pour in, Mr. Hopson can make a similar offer of mortgage bonds in Metropolitan Edison Co. (Pennsylvania), New York State Electric and Gas Corp., Pennsylvania Electric Co. Despite these fine plans, A. G. & E. last week lost voting control of Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. to Rochester businessmen as part...