Word: scraper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scraped with a three-pronged scraper early in the morning, and the opium taken off with a knife before noon and wrapped in a poppy petal [see cut]. Stopping the opium trade is only half the problem. It is necessary to give these people other sources of income, as opium has been traditionally their source for trade goods. They get a low price for it, the profit going to unknown people further down the drug train...
...lived it up: down the corridors of the hospital he loped (as best he could) with his toy cowboy gun hanging from his hip. Back home at Blair House, there were cowboy and Indian suits, a drum, a road-scraper, a Mickey Mouse hat, a bicycle, lollipops, a toy tractor from the President. As if proof were needed that children are the same the world over, he presided at a children's party at the Saudi Arabian embassy and started a typical childlike ruckus of his own. Photographers asked him. to kiss a little American girl, Mary Harris, granddaughter...
...Allis Chalmers' 25-ton, 280-h.p. motor scraper, with top capacity of 20 cu. yds. Its business end is shaped like a garden shovel...
...General Motors' rubber-tired, 518-h.p. Goliath scraper, which takes 24 cu. yds. of aggregate with one bite of its 14-ft. bulldozer blade. Each of its two diesels connects with a single track, so that one track can continue forward while the other reverses, spinning the giant around...
...McClure Kelley, 57, was elected president of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., succeeding Marvin W. Smith, who stays on as chairman of the executive committee. Princeton-educated "Mac" Kelley practiced law in Washington, served as a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, joined Western Wheeled Scraper Co. in 1929 as a credit manager, rose to president. The company merged with Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton in 1951. As president, he will work on plans for an atomic locomotive under Chairman George A. Rentschler...