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...litter of dead car carcasses is bothering more and more civic groups, such as the National Council of State Garden Clubs. Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy has even urged the use of excise taxes on gasoline to subsidize the scrapping of cars. The trouble is twofold: 1) as population and incomes increase, more cars are made, and they have ever shorter lives; 2) the price of scrap metal has dropped as the steel industry has converted from open-hearth furnaces, which use up to 45% scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto...
...could look into the matter, decide if further investigation, perhaps of the HSA books, is in fact necessary, and discuss their opinions with the administration representatives. If the HPC could resolve this problem, it would demonstrate its future potentialities. If not, perhaps it would be best to scrap it, as I feel the HUC should be scrapped at the first available opportunity. Eric Delson...
...will order about 150 F-4 Phantoms from McDonnell Aircraft. While the decision will add to Britain's worrisome balance of payments deficit, Prime Minister Harold Wilson estimated that it will save $840 million over the next ten years. Wilson postponed an even bigger decision: whether to scrap development of the British TSR-2 strike bomber in favor of General Dynamics' F-111 (originally TFX) fighter. But he grumbled loudly at the "prodigious" cost of the British plane -as much as a prewar battleship...
...could run out if taken too much for granted. The last three demonstrations were set off by tragic incidents on U.S. military bases. In November an off-duty U.S. airman, allegedly bird hunting with a .22-cal. rifle, shot and killed a 15-year-old Filipino boy scavenging for scrap metal on Clark Air Force Base. The next month, two Marine Corps sentries at the U.S. naval base in Subic Bay killed one of a pair of Filipino fishermen who the marines believed were pilfering from a dockside ammo dump...
...weapons and ammo filter to remnants of the Communist Huk guerrilla forces holed up on Luzon. But mostly the Filipino operators sell the explosives to dynamite-fishermen (who package it in Coke bottles to kill fish in Manila Bay) and trade the empty cases on Manila's booming scrap-metal market. Pilferers have stolen airfield landing lights, miles of fencing, electric cables, strips of portable runway, and even a five-ton landing chain...