Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain would like to extend this ratio to all classes of naval weapons, thus keeping Japan permanently inferior. Last week Admiral Nagano flatly refused to talk ratios, invited U. S. and British citizens to ponder the type of naval weapon Japan wants all Great Powers to scrap. Obviously if aircraft carriers, long-range submarines and large-surface ships of maximum cruising radius were abolished, Japan could neither strike at the West nor be struck at. She would be left safe and supreme in the East, able to defend herself and to operate at short range against Asiatics...
SAINTSBURY (George) A Second Scrap Book. Mint...
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt was president of the Harvard CRIMSON for six months in 1903. Mr. Roosevelt dictated the editorial policy of the college paper and, when he did not write editorials, influenced the choice of topics and their treatment. Fortunately, the CRIMSON still preserves several of the editorial scrap books of that year, and in these are editorial clippings pasted beside scribbled comments by the youthful editor...
...Raskob had been where Mr. Farley was now, just rounding out a campaign to elect a Democratic President. In honest expectation of a Brown Derby victory Chairman Raskob had piled up a huge party deficit. After defeat he had refused to let his machine go to rusty scrap as was the Democratic custom between elections. Basing his organization at Washington, financing it largely out of his own pocket, he and Jouett Shouse had opened a drumfire on the Republicans which helped the Democrats win the House in 1930. When the spring of 1932 came, the party...
...never realized the importance and the extent of the scrap iron industry and the service that it rendered in American business. I have acquired a decided degree of respect for the so-called junk or scrap man as the result of your interesting article, and I sincerely hope that in these days, when businessmen are looking for every encouragement, scrap iron will prove to be the reliable barometer of business prospects in the near future, which I now learn...