Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taurus. Another U.S. Plane will be shot down. After a secret three-day session of the National Security Council at Augusta, Georgia, the Administration will announce that the nation will scrap the old scheme of massive retaliation for a new program of, in Mr. Dulles' words, "tit for tat." No sign of the maids yet, but Bentinck-Smith shouts up that he thinks he has found a likely donor for the new theatre...
Last week Japan's new nationalist Premier, Ichiro Hatoyama, announced that his first move to correct occupation-made law would be to scrap Article 9 of the constitution, "because this Article is open to misinterpretation and leads to much unnecessary confusion...
Portal to Portal. The Air-Way fight was typical of Promoter Lamb, who likes nothing better than a good scrap. The son of a commercial fisherman, he worked his way through Dartmouth ('24), spent a year each at Harvard and Yale, and then graduated from Western Reserve Law School...
...unexpected failure. Quoting eagerly from Nehru's own anti-Western statements, the Communists had tried to lure Nehru into an anti-Western collective security pact; Nehru had proved "not too enthusiastic." The conference, trumpeted in advance as a milestone of history, produced no final communique and only one scrap of agreement: Red China could run an airline into India; India could extend its present air service 80 miles from free Hong Kong to Red Canton...
...Democratic Choice." Wily Cy Eaton and Louis Berkman, a onetime scrap dealer who is now a small Ohio steel producer, told the SEC that they were willing to pay $21 a share for Follansbee, topping Richmond's offer by $1 a share. They would buy 51% of the stock immediately, and the rest within a year. Furthermore, Eaton and Berkman would keep Follansbee's mill operating right where it is. Would SEC kindly order a re-solicitation of stockholders so that they might make a "democratic choice...