Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern California, and signed a $50,000 contract with the Atlanta Braves. Major league officials ruled the contract void, and after that, the Mets, along with the Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Indians, made offers to Seaver. The league decreed that the contest should be settled by lot, and the scrap of paper drawn out of a hat read "Mets...
...human bomb. In one novel, a beautiful woman feeds for 20 years on the high-held hope that she will one day, somehow, be able to chop up her lover with a machete. In another, a man sets out, in more sinister fashion, to learn by heart every last scrap of information the world contains about cheese. Even minor characters are wound up and whirring, their eyes empty and locked on apocalypse...
...Both sides maintain their present 1CBM inventories but reduce other parts of their arsenals. Under this approach, the U.S. could agree to scrap ten of its Polaris submarines, while the Russians would be permitted to build up their fleet to parity with the U.S. at 31 boats. The U.S. would phase out all of its B-52s and B-58s while building enough FB-111s, the strategic fighter-bomber version of the swing-wing F-111, to match the Soviet TU-95s in numbers. The U.S. would abandon Safeguard ABMs, the Russians would dismantle or neutralize the Galosh network...
...scrap heaps can be aluminum mines," says David P. Reynolds, executive vice president of Reynolds Metals Co. In a small but worthy start toward solving the national trash problem, Reynolds is offering $200 a ton for the discarded aluminum cans that now cheapen U.S. parks, beaches and roadsides. In Miami, Reynolds is collecting 1,500 lbs. of cans a month through Goodwill Industries. In Los Angeles, it is getting ten times that from Boy Scouts, and other profit-minded collectors, who are paid half-a-cent per can. By melting down those cans, Reynolds "mines" reusable aluminum...
...continue to flourish. The manufacturers imply that by pouring in a $1.50 can of additive with every oil change, the motorist can forestall a $150 valve-and-ring job. Such a job is usually not needed until a car has been driven 60,000 miles. Since most motorists scrap or sell their cars before reaching that milestone, they seldom discover that additives do not do all that their makers claim...