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Stimulated by this thick overburden (hinting at great age), the archeologists attacked the bluff with dynamite and a bulldozer. By fall they had uncovered stone, bone and antler artifacts (prehistoric scrap pile), and bones of extinct animals (prehistoric garbage dump). They found no human remains, but obviously ancient man had fancied the spot for a long time, chipping his crude weapons and tossing gnawed bones over his muscular shoulder...
...Thomas committee did not come only from the Communists and their confused comrades. The nation's press was almost unanimous in its condemnation. A spot survey by the New York Times showed that many plain citizens were seriously concerned about the committee's conduct. Some wanted to scrap the Thomas committee outright; others wanted to do away with the whole system of congressional investigations...
...check a further rise in scrap prices, some of the larger steel companies stopped buying. By week's end the price had dropped to $40 a ton. But even that was considered too high by many of the mills. The buyers' strike continued...
...Scrap dealers wondered how long the steel companies could hold out. In August, when scrap rose to $42, the steel companies, by refusing to buy, drove the price down to $38. This time they were in a poorer bargaining position. Traditionally, the industry stocks up on scrap in the fall, before the cold weather slows down collection and transportation...
...Philadelphia and Chicago last week, some small mills reported that they had only two weeks' scrap supply on hand. Some of the bigger companies were only a little better off. Whether or not steelmen would eventually be forced to pay higher prices, the shortage of scrap was so acute that a drop in steel production seemed inevitable...