Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force cautiously reappeared. Over Taejon, four patrolling U.S. F-80s met four Yak fighters, shot down three; other Yaks tried to intercept U.S. B-29s on their mission to Seoul, giving them, in the words of a U.S. briefing officer, "a pretty good scrap." Airfields previously deserted were again abustle with Red aircraft...
...Frederick's bronze statue on Unter den Linden, which, since the start of World War II, had been encased in a brick shell to protect it against air raids. Recently, not fully realizing their kinship to the king, the Communists suggested that the statue be melted down for scrap. An outcry of protest from Berliners taught the Communist bosses that they could put Frederick to better...
...troops. In World War II he commanded the famed XX Corps, which spearheaded the late George Patton's Third Army across Western Europe. The Korean situation was as different from that as a model-T Ford is from a 30-ton truck. In Korea, Walker would need every scrap of his tactician's ingenuity; hardly ever before in history had a U.S. general taken on such a tough...
With steel mills running at better than 100% capacity for the eighth consecutive week, the wildest commodity of all was steel scrap. Top-grade scrap climbed to $46 a ton last week, a 48% advance in three months, to hit an alltime high. At week's end some big buyers dropped out of the market to wait for lower prices. But many industrial purchasing agents predicted that most metals will be high and scarce for the rest of the year. The Dow-Jones commodity futures index, which reflects traders' ideas of coming prices, pointed to still more rises...
...some 50 years the school board of Spokane has had a "gentleman's agreement" ruling against employing married women as public-school teachers. Last week, finding that 300 of its 600 women teachers had husbands despite the rule, the board had decided to face facts and scrap it. New ruling in Spokane: teachers who are expectant mothers may have up the 12 months maternity leave...