Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full blast), but they hesitated to recommend a stock or urge the purchase of a bond if it involved use of the mails or interstate commerce. Of course they advised old clients whom they could trust, for it was the racketeer, the sue-&-settle people, who would save every scrap of a firm's written matter waiting for a chance to trip it up. that Wall Street feared most. Many firms ceased or radically altered their "market letters...
...Finnish, two German, one Swedish, carrying a total of 900,000 bags of wheat. Some were so old that the sailors could not chip the hull for fear the chipping hammers would go clean through the plates. Built from 16 to 45 years ago, sailed on a capital representing scrap value, the ships were uninsured.† Their masters knew they could not drive them for fear of losing one of their two suits of old sails, losing all the voyage's small margin of profit. As compared to a clipper ship's one able seaman for every...
...Weirton Steel Co., big National Steel subsidiary, bought 15,000 freight cars and 400 locomotives from Baltimore & Ohio R. R. to mash up for scrap. Each freight car will yield 15 tons of steel, each locomotive 90 tons. Price of scrap...
...seduced Ugo when she learned that he was employed as a messenger in the Ministry of Marine. His job was to carry important documents from one office to another, also to collect and burn all waste paper in every office every night. Documents he photographed or copied. From the scrap-basket scribblings he managed to guess very shrewdly just what plans were under consideration. The beautiful Camilla smuggled the documents out of the country to France and Jugoslavia in the frames of oil paintings. Both confessed, both were condemned to death though King Vittorio Emmanuele forestalled French martyrdom by commuting...
...last week's improvement in the steel business. Steel operations which began April at about 15% of capacity, closed the month at nearly 30% capacity, biggest one-month jump since 1930. In some districts such as Cleveland they were reported at over 40%. Not only did prices for scrap steel mount but manufacturers of hot strip and sheet steel boosted their prices $2 a ton. Increased purchases were reported for virtually all classes except structural steel. Economists found more real hope in steel's upturn than in all inflation talk...