Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was tremendous moral indignation in Europe over that invaluable phrase, "a scrap of paper." Today, alas, there will shortly be an addition to the existing supply of moral indignation, for Japan is taking advantage of European difficulties to go a-fishing in troubled waters. Japan has become civilized; she now has armaments in the best western manner, she has aped methods of European diplomacy, turning them to good use in her present moves toward a chaste imperialism, all in the best traditions...
...compulsory attendance has rendered even this feeble encouragement completely obsolete. Whatever may be the attitude next year of the authorities toward revising probation and attendance at classes, it is to be hoped that restrictions of no obvious value around vacation and holiday times will be relegated to the scrap-heap...
...Jericho fell as related, probably as the result of an earthquake which may also have caused the damming of the River Jordan described in Psalm 114: The sea saw it and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. Not a scrap of metal was found in Jericho, thus bolstering the statement in Joshua: And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord...
...Italy no longer wants to scrap the League, but accepts it as part of the world order. The Italians are still interested in its reform, and, in fact, in strengthening it, although Mussolini has said that the League will collapse if the disarmament conference is wrecked. The conference will not be successful in a strict sense, but it can hope to prevent an armament race by stabilizing arms and by permitting German re-armament...
...heavy demand from can-makers and the automobile industry. Iron Age estimated operations at 49% of capacity-highest since last August. Production of 4,200,000 tons in the first two months of the year was precisely 100% above the figure for the same period of 1933. Steel scrap prices, which generally forecast the trend of steel activity, rose to a 3½-year high at $14.50 per ton. Brightest spot was the Detroit area where mills were running at 100% capacity. Retail sales boomed again after the quiet interlude brought by storms and bitter weather. New England merchants reported...