Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first issue of the year? It was rubber. The Japanese had occupied Southeast Asia and Massachusetts lagged far behind the rest of the nation in her collection of scrap rubber. For Harvard, the humiliation was compounded--President Conant headed the national scrap rubber committee...
...Message. He has employed banter shrewdly, both to keep his audiences interested and to appear unruthless. In Tecumseh, Neb., the wind tore a scrap of paper from his hand. "That's my farm program," he said. "Give it back quickly." Of course, he has done more to raise farm prices than anyone else; just think, he says, of the milk, eggs and bread his children consume. Are his crowds packed with the young? "I'm going to lower the voting age to seven." What about all that money he's spending? He quotes from Jack: "I have a message from...
Some movie fans just won't settle for sitting through endless reruns of their idol's films or collecting faded photographs. San Francisco Restaurateur Frederick Reeve has always had a passion for Humphrey Bogart, and when he heard of plans to scrap Bogie's African Queen, the grand old tub in which he and Katharine Hepburn chugged down the Ulanga in their 1951 movie, well, something had to be done. So Reeve flew to Nairobi, bought the old girl for $750, now plans to refurbish her for $10,000 more and haul the craft around the country...
Phillips Brooks House plans to scrap the present individual tutoring program, and with it the whole "tutoring qua tutoring ethic," PBH president Wesley E. Profit '69 said yesterday...
...policyholder, U. L. Fletcher, injured his back three years ago on the job lifting a 361-lb. bale of scrap rubber. He had a $15,000 disability policy with Western National Life Insurance Co. of Texas, and at first the company agreed to pay him $150 a month for at least two years. Then it reversed itself and stopped payments on grounds that his injury was really an illness. Wearing a brace, Korean War Veteran Fletcher went to court to ask for $50,000 as compensation and $1,000,000 in punitive damages under the outrage law. The jury...