Word: scrapped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...yacht from Pulitzer, made it a navigating hospital. The third owner, the late Fanny Lucy Radmall Lady Houston, wife of the Houston shiplines director, hung a huge electric sign, DOWN WITH MACDONALD THE TRAITOR, in the rigging, sailed the English coast. Last week the old Liberty was sold for scrap, towed to Newport, Monmouthshire to be dismantled...
...unavoidable as Christmas crowds are the year-end sound-offs of industrial leaders and soothsayers. Among the few whose remarks are taken seriously is Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres, vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. Last week Colonel Ayres was not impressed by a 50? rise in scrap prices and the first rise since August in the New York Times business index. Like some M.Ps. in Britain (see p. 14), he predicted mainly gloomy things...
...completed ship the Allies took, handing her proudly over to Britain's White Star Line which ran her for years as the Homeric. Last year she was broken up for scrap. Meantime work was again started on her weathering sister ship on the keel site of 1914. In 1922, two years after Danzig became a Free City, the graceful beauty was launched, christened the Columbus. Until the advent of the Bremen and Europa seven years later she was Germany's largest ship, crack vessel of its mercantile marine; then the Columbus fell into third place. Re-turbined...
...colonies was only 24,000-less than the number of German residents in Paris. The Fatherland's trade with all German colonies in 1914 amounted to only 1% of Germany's total trade. Today such facts of economic history are flung by Germans on the scrap heap. In Hamburg last week an especially vehement colony-demanding speech was made by General Göring. Roared he: "Germany is entitled to colonies-the same as other nations-and we shall not rest until our just claims are fulfilled...
...that medium together for the sake of Peace. Miss Hoffman, who has sculped native dancers in Asia, Africa and the South Seas, thought so too. During the summer Miss Branch and Miss Hoffman traveled 12,000 miles by automobile through Europe, extracted from galleries, artists and officials every scrap that they could find of valuable art connected with the dance...