Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north shore of Lake Erie lay a contorted pile of scrap iron, all that was left of the freighter M. J. Nessen. The crew, twelve men, a woman, was rescued before the ship broke up. On a sandbar nearby was lodged the steel sandsucker C. M. Caldwell. A crew of 18, gambling that she would ride the storm, stayed aboard...
Despite his success in discovering murderers with nothing more than a scrap of cloth or a bloody hatchet to work on, crimes of violence did not interest the great Gaston Bayle...
...hour of fame. In 1921 antique U. S, S. Olympia bore the body of the Unknown Soldier from France to Washington. Today obsolete U. S. S. Olympia rusts away in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Navy Department recently proposed to convert her into a few thousand dollars worth of scrap iron...
...Minneapolis was Arthur Hind, Utica, N. Y. plush tycoon, owner of the "world's rarest stamp," the only known 1¢ British Guiana of 1856, for which he paid $32,500. philately's greatest price. Cut octagonally, magenta in color, not a particularly good specimen as stamps go, this unique scrap of paper was "discovered" in 1872, when it sold for six shillings...
Snowy-haired, perspicacious Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen is chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. which controls the White Star. Not without soundest reasons did he scrap the world's longest ocean liner keel. When the Oceanic was laid down, super-size rather than superspeed was the boast of luxury ships. For 22 years the trans-Atlantic speed record had been held unmolested by Cunard's gallant Mauretania while ship after ship surpassed her in size. Last month, however, Germany's new Bremen beat the old Mauretania (TIME, July 29), set a new trans-Atlantic liner...