Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aluminum Co. of America has been damned as a monopoly, double-damned as a Mellon monopoly. It has been accused of attempting to buy up the world's supply of bauxite, of cornering the supply of scrap aluminum, of conspiring to fix the world price of aluminum. Latest and most vociferous of Aluminum's accusers is Baush Machine Tool Co., independent aluminum fabricator of Springfield, Mass. Baush lost a $9,000,000 damage suit against Aluminum in a New Haven court in 1933. Last year a U. S. Court of Appeals granted a new trial which was concluded...
Nothing irritates U. S. scrap dealers so much as to be told that scrap shipments are creating a U. S. shortage. Scrap is abundant, they say. There are about 750,000,000 tons of steel in use in the U. S., part of which must go into scrap every year as new steel is forged. Theoretically, the entire 1928 production of automobiles is ready for the junk heap this year. And compared with annual domestic scrap consumption of 17,000,000 tons, last year's exports of 1,835,000 tons was only a piffling 10%. Because scrap...
...others take a darker view. William Randolph Hearst and certain members of the U. S. Senate believe that the U. S. is 1) depleting valuable national resources by shipping scrap, and 2) unwittingly helping Japan build a more powerful military machine for aggressive action. They point to the fact that Japan's sharp increase in scrap buying (500% in three years) has taken place since 1931, when fighting began in Manchuria. Hence some members of the Senate Munitions Committee, which is currently investigating Japanese purchases in the U. S., favor an embargo on scrap exports...
...last session of Congress President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to prohibit export of tin-bearing scrap. Scrap dealers expect new agitation for an embargo at this session, are confident that President Roosevelt will oppose it because he is trying to develop export trade. But last fortnight, Raymond Moley, the President's friend and counselor, published as the lead article in his magazine Today a sharply critical analysis of Japan's scrap buying by Ray Tucker, longtime Washington newshawk. Reporter Tucker concluded that Japan's demand for scrap was unmistakably for the purpose of 1) modernizing her army...
...Bligh and his companions won through to Kupang after 43 nightmarish days. Meantime the mutineers returned to Tahiti, whence nine of them set out again with a Tahitian princess for the first officer, eleven other native women and six native men. On Pitcairn Island, a tiny, wooded, steep, craggy scrap of land in the South Pacific, they beached and burned the Bounty, hoped they were safe from reprisal. They were not safe from one another. Unbridled drinking and mating, suicides, a war between natives and whites, between women and men, left alive one man, a handful of women, 25 children...