Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since cocky little Finland has not the slightest fear of Japan but hates and fears Japan's No. 1 enemy Russia, Finnish Army officers prepared to give Captain Nishimura every scrap of secret information on how to keep troops and war gear efficiently in action at temperatures down...
Last week episodes like these were half revealed, half suggested, in two papyrus leaves and one small papyrus scrap from a collection of Greek writings acquired in Egypt lately by the British Museum. The papyri, declared Keeper of Manuscripts Harold Idris Bell, are the oldest Christian writings extant. Of the 2nd Century, they antedate the Chester Beatty New Testament papyri (3rd Century) which came to light four years ago. Paralleling and at times supplementing the Gospels, the papyrus fragments are apparently close to the sources used by St. John in his writings...
...what is called Nazi cannot win this nearby victory, what foreign victory can it ever win? To the disgust of millions of Germans, Der Führer has not kept his campaign promises openly to rupture the Treaty of Versailles. He has not won for Germany a single scrap of territory, not even Danzig, much less the Polish Corridor. If the Saar, which, before Hitler, was considered all but in Germany's bag, should vote next week to remain under League trusteeship or to join France, the blow to Nazi prestige inside Germany would be titanic...
Said Prize-Presenter Mowinckel: "If faith in the Disarmament Conference is still alive it is due to Mr. Henderson. . . . The fair words and promises of the peace treaties and the Covenant of the League of Nations now hardly seem of greater importance than a scrap of paper. Desolation and disappointment increase while the rumor flies that Germany rearms. . . . We bring our thanks and our homage to such a man as Arthur Henderson, a man who stands firm...
...solid indices of industry. Electric power output last week was 8% above the same week of 1933 and last fortnight touched a 200-week high. Steel production inched upward for the eighth consecutive week to 32.7% of capacity. That still meant losses for the industry but the price of scrap steel, a good key to steel's future, jumped to $13 per ton, up $3 from the autumn low. Building supply companies, aided by the Government's remodeling drive, reported sales up as much as 150%. American Telephone & Telegraph added 16,000 telephones in November as against...