Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters and Deputies waiting outside could hear cries of pain and anger and the screams of female Reds, who stretched out on the floor, forcing the guards to drag them out. One by one, the Deputies were ejected, noses bleeding, clothing torn. General Marquant mopped his brow. "What a scrap," he said, "and I'm such a kindly fellow...
...museum, the Prado. On the side, he haunted junk shops looking for castoff paintings-cleaning, patching and touching them up for resale at a tidy profit. One day in Toledo's rastro (flea market) he came across a rare find: a filthy five-by-ten-inch scrap of an old painting that looked like an authentic bit of 17th Century canvas. Jesús bought it for 15 pesetas...
Open-hearth furnaces melt together pig iron, scrap steel, iron ore and limestone. The carbon is oxidized by the oxygen in the iron ore and goes up the stack as carbon dioxide. Other impurities are absorbed by the limestone slag on the surface of the molten iron. U.S. Steel's new "Turbo-Hearth" furnace blows jets of air across the surface of a pool of molten pig iron. The oxygen in the air combines with the impurities, removes them from the iron, turns the iron to low-carbon steel. This method is not very different from the Bessemer process...
John L. Lewis, whose life has been one long noisy scrap, reached his 70th birthday this week, bellowing and posturing through the toughest scrap of his life. He had been unable to wring concessions from a group of coal operators as stubborn and tough as he. Their quarrel threatened to bring the country's economy to its knees...
Craig Sheaffer meets regularly with the workers' employees council, gives them the latest sales and profits figures, points out weak spots (e.g., a department's failure to cut scrap waste). "We have no secrets from our employees," says Sheaffer. "We've been able to make them see the reasons for things...