Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...younger fellow's take over." and Bull Halsey's officers-Forrest Sherman, Arthur Radford, Mick Carney, Arleigh Burke-did. He put in a stint for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., launched but lost a fund-raising drive to save his old flagship Big E from the scrap heap. "Remember!" he rasped. "Scrapped ships will not rest peacefully in deep blue waters beside the gallant Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Houston, Atlanta, and all the brave others. Our Navy must remain strong!" Last week, on Fishers Island in the peaceful grey waters of Long Island Sound, Bull Halsey, 76, died...
...hero of the play and Don Juan its most eloquent spokesman, both of them, Tanner especially, serve also as satiric butts. Tanner may preach the Life Force, but the pursuing woman embodies the Life Force, which sweeps the protesting Tanner into her arms "as a sailor throws a scrap of fish into the mouth of a seabird...
...most important development in steel in decades is the basic oxygen process, developed in Austria seven years ago, in which a jet of pure oxygen is blown into molten steel held in a special converter. The oxygen accelerates the refining action of the metal, burns out impurities, uses less scrap metal. An oxygen vessel costs only about one-half of open-hearth facilities, turns out steel ingots in 35 minutes, v. ten to twelve hours for the open-hearth process. Kaiser Steel (which holds the U.S. rights to the patent for the process), Jones & Laughlin, McLouth Steel and Acme Steel...
Died. Raymond Campbell Schindler, 77, low-keyed, grimly patient private detective who marshaled all the resources of modern criminology, spent months and huge sums of money to catch such peculiarly modern-day badmen as scrap-metal grafters and lackadaisical meat distributors, kept dramatic, publicized feats to a minimum (by proving incriminating fingerprints faked, he cleared Client Alfred de Marigny of the celebrated Bahamas murder of Sir Harry Oakes), never once wore a gun, or used his fist; of a heart attack; in Tarrytown...
...Busch. His current novel, about a moneyed San Francisco clan, has ten epigraphs-one at the beginning of each chapter. A Latin proverb assures doubters that the author is classically educated, a quotation from the San Francisco Examiner implies that his feet are solidly on the ground, a scrap from T. S. Eliot warns that there is subtle stuff ahead...