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...production of 8,503,000 tons, more than any month since October 1953, had the industry working at 88.1% of capacity v. 74.3% in February 1954. Last week the operating rate was up to 92.5% of capacity, and mills, sold out through May, were having a hard time getting scrap. To help out, the Commerce Department slapped tougher regulations on scrap exports...
...jets were based south of the Yalu. Since then Russian-made jets have swarmed into North Korean bases. The truce terms specifically forbid all such buildups, but by last week this and other Red violations had become so flagrant that the U.S. and the United Nations Command decided to scrap the futile pretense of truce inspection and supervision...
...ways to get around it. The new Japanese army was modeled after Prussia's, the navy after Britain's, and the battleships came by way of the latest designs of Clydeside and Newport News, Va. The Japanese bought Manhattan's disassembled Sixth Avenue Elevated as scrap iron (and returned it later with a bang). They also borrowed, from Britain's successful example of the 17th to null centuries, the notion that a poor island nation has a right and a destiny to build an empire. What they could not get by borrowing or adapting, they went...
...Room for Roughhouse. A dogged competitor who would probably run right up the back of a man in his way, Dwyer refused to be tricked into that early scrap. He held himself in, listened like an old-timer to that split-second stopwatch ticking in his head. Up forward, Santee finished the first half in 1:59. It was too fast. Both he and Nielsen were running down. With four laps to go, Freddie Dwyer knew it was time to move. Taking no chances of repeating the past week's roughhouse, he swung to the outside and began...
...mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market. London was offering 44? and up. As supplies grew short, the U.S. Government refused to dip into its low stockpiles, instead banned the export of all domestic refined copper, limited copper scrap export to 12,000 tons for February and March...