Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America has need of friends abroad, but the brutal shooting of a poverty-stricken, scrap-picking Japanese woman by Private William Girard has made enemies instead. Insult has been added to injury now that Girard has become the recipient of that modern legal farce, the suspended sentence. Girard not only has got away with murder, but he has cost Uncle Sam precious good will...
What saved the reja from the scrap heap was the omnivorous taste of the late William Randolph Hearst-who once bought a whole monastery in Spain, shipped it stone by stone to the U.S. But even Hearst did not have room to house the cathedral screen. For more than 25 years it remained in packing boxes in a Bronx warehouse. Eventually, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which has in its towering Medieval Sculpture Hall a room made to order for the 60,000-lb. screen, began negotiating to buy it. Earlier this year the Hearst Foundation donated the screen...
...average of $6 a ton, Kefauver noted, but manufacturers admitted that the wage increase cost them only $3.15 a ton. Furthermore, some other manufacturing costs are down. Charged Kefauver: "Steelmen cannot justify the continued existence of a price increase in view of the fact that the price of scrap used in a ton of steel is down around $3.85 fr,om the average price a year ago." (The average price of No. 1 heavy melting grade scrap has plummeted in the past year from...
While staffers downed farewell toasts of ouzo, a high-octane Athenian absinthe dispensed by the saloon next door to the old building, Sun-Times management rolled up its sleeves for a long-awaited scrap. Restricted to 96-page press runs by inadequate mechanical facilities in the old building, ailing Marshall Field Jr.'s fast-rising Sun-Times had to turn away advertisers 14 days last year, once had to forgo 17 pages of ads. The new presses, capable of turning out 128-page papers, will also allow the Sun-Times to go all out for the added circulation...
...gadgets become increasingly complex-and the repair bills mount-every businessman is attacking the problem at all levels, from the small local repair shop up to the factory production line. Philco, Motorola and other manufacturers have found that it is often better to scrap the inevitable lemons that crop up in every model than try to repair them. Sears, Roebuck recently exchanged a Dallas customer's TV set five times before both company and customer were satisfied. To eliminate a troublesome production error, Norge spent thousands of dollars changing the transmissions in 27,000 washing machines. Major companies have...