Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This preposterous scrap of Americana is so well suited to the needs of sentimental cinema that it may well make cinemaddicts wonder why Hollywood's operetta impresarios bother to invent stodgy plots for their productions instead of adapting the up-to-date inventions of the past. Admirers of Victor Herbert will not need to be reminded that the score of Naughty Marietta contains, in addition to "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," such minor classics as "I'm Falling in Love with Someone," "The Italian Street Song," and "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald sing them to perfection...
...buying this junk," said he. "The cost of labor in removing the stuff would be greater than any profit you could get out of it. ... And besides there's not enough demand for this kind of material." Another delegate admitted, however, that Japan, biggest buyer of U. S. scrap (TIME, March 11), was now buying 400 tons of scrap aluminum a month. "They can use this material for making fuse caps," said...
...Wilhelm Göring, "bounded from their chairs" last week and gave a triple cheer of "Heil! Heil! Heil!" when Adolf Hitler finished telling them in his harshest, most gutturally thrilling German that the page of the Treaty of Versailles on which German signatures are inked is just another scrap of paper. Specifically Messiah Hitler decreed that Germany will now violate the Treaty of Versailles' Part V by raising as rapidly as possible a conscript peacetime army of half a million men-bigger than the continental peacetime army of France...
...they were bombing planes, a fleet of German military aircraft wheeling over Berlin fortnight ago were mere circumstantial evidence that Aviation Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goring had broken the Treaty of Versailles which denies all military aircraft to Germany. Last week, five days before Realmleader Hitler made the treaty a scrap of paper (see p. 20), General Göring gave direct evidence. He announced that Germany has long had a military air force, merged it formally with the Reichswehr, announced himself as "General of the Flyers...
...Wrens to beg a little food. Son, 21, also suffering from undernourishment, has had twelve days relief work since Christmas at $1.20 a day. This family shares its two rag-covered, rickety beds with a young woman who had nowhere else to turn. When the reporters called, not a scrap of food was in the house. All they ever have is cornbread; the meal barrel was empty...