Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough coal for one voyage, limps south through the Panama Canal, manages to reach Nagasaki 11,000 mi. away. There the cargo is dumped into smelters. The ship proceeds to Osaka where, in the world's largest ship-breaking yard, acetylene torches reduce its hull to hunks of scrap. The crew works back to New York for another ship, another cargo. The scrap goes into Japanese skyscrapers, bridges, turbines, locomotives, spinning wheels or, according to many a suspicious U. S. citizen, into armaments and ammunition...
...world's biggest importer of steel scrap, Japan is wholly dependent on the U. S., which is the only large industrial nation with no scrap export embargo. Last week the Department of Commerce announced that scrap shipments during 1934 had reached an all-time high of 1,835,554 tons against 773,000 tons the year before. Of this total export 1,168,000 tons or 63% had gone to Japan. Italy, which like Japan suffers a shortage of good iron ore, was next biggest buyer with 225,644 tons. Great Britain was third with 134,434 tons...
Vested Interests. If criticism of NRA made it difficult for the President to ask its renewal, nonetheless the criticism following a decision to scrap NRA would have been more troublesome still. For NRA as a going institution already has its vested interests. Labor leaders may be bitterly disappointed by the results that followed NRA's promise of collective bargaining but many of them still hold to their belief that they can turn it to account. As long as NRA exists they sooner or later may win the right to write their own ticket for the complete unionization of industry...
Before Senator Glass launches his expected attack on the new banking bill he will first have a scrap as to whether it will be considered by his subcommittee or the full Banking & Currency Committee, chairmanned by Florida's white-crested Senator Fletcher, 76, whom Mr. Glass, 77, always refers to as "that...
...international fraternity of erudite men & women unite in the belief that a yellowed tooth, a scrap of papyrus or a piece of broken pottery may be a treasure beyond price. Doings of diggers lately...