Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia: Thousands of tons of scrap iron lay stranded on the docks, its eventual destination uncertain and unknown...
TIME, Aug. 7 states, "For the past two years Japan has bought from the U. S. well over half the high-test motor fuel, motors, machinery, scrap metals and scrap rubber essential to her Chinese conquest...
...Took half ($22,035,000) of her scrap iron sold last year and, in the first five 1939 months, $45,710,000 worth of oil and gasoline, copper and machinery, autos, trucks and parts...
...Supplied her with 70.4% of her scrap iron and steel, 60.5% of her oil and gasoline, 41.6% of her pig iron, 92.9% of her copper, 48.5% of her machinery and engines, 91.2% of her autos, trucks and parts (latest available figures...
...implied threat in Secretary Hull's treaty abrogation is an embargo on shipment of war materials to Japan when six months notice is up and possibly penalty duties on Japanese goods. Cutting off U.S. scrap would put a serious crimp in Japan's manufacture of guns and other weapons. With very little scrap iron available outside of the U.S., Japan would have to buy expensive iron and steel or iron ore. For her other U.S.-supplied war materials (oil and gasoline, pig iron, copper, machinery and engines, autos, trucks and parts) Japan could go elsewhere...