Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demolition line functioning in reverse of an assembly line. Before a car was finally dumped into a furnace cupola it was stripped of glass, tires, battery, upholstery, top fabric, copper, brass. Serviceable equipment was sold to Ford employes, the rest used to the last scrap in the meticulous Ford economy. More than 300,000 jallopies were junked before the demolition line finally shut down...
...devoted antiFascists they are now against any peaceful solution which is not against Fascism. Last week they opened a whispering campaign to the effect that only the corruption of the tellers of the French Chamber of Deputies accounts for the recent majorities received by Premier Pierre Laval. Without a scrap of proof, they rumored that the majority of 20 won by the Laval Cabinet after the Premier's defense of his efforts to make peace at Ethiopia's expense would have been a majority of only eight had the votes been honestly counted. Most Frenchmen promptly asked each...
...Park plant. In 1921 he left Mr. Ford, in 1922 turned up at Chevrolet, became Chevrolet's president two years later. So well did he apply his Ford training to Chevrolet production that in 1927 more than a million Chevrolets were turned out and Mr. Ford had to scrap Model T. Since October 1933 Mr. Knudsen has been General Motors executive vice president, in charge of all automotive production and acting as contact man between General Motors in Michigan and General Motors in Manhattan. He says that he does not like men to ask him for a raise because...
Another veteran, Gordon F. Robertson '36, 165-pounder, easily grabbed a scrap for himself, and Captain William A. Smith '36, Eastern Intercollegiate champ of last year will mix it up in the 175-pound listing...
...have hasty, ill-advised marriages, unions entered into without the knowledge, the preparation, the thought even an important commercial contract merits and receives. God made marriage an indissoluble contract, Christ made it a sacrament, the world today has made it a plaything of passion, an accompaniment of sex, a scrap of paper to be torn up at the whim of the participants...