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...ABOVE TYPES OF AIRPLANES WERE BUILT TO FLY AND NOT TO SCRAP. THEY HAVE YEARS OF SERVICE IN THEM AND IT IS A CRIME TO DESTROY ANY AIRPLANE THAT CAN POSSIBLY BE USED. RETURNING VETERANS AND FLYING ENTHUSIASTS SHOULD BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY THESE AIRPLANES AT NOMINAL PRICES. ALL THE ABOVE AIRPLANES ARE OF A TYPE THAT WILL NOT BE COMPETITIVE WITH NEW TYPES...
Serious discrepancies had already appeared in Japanese financial and industrial reports to General MacArthur's headquarters. Example: silver bars. When U.S. officers found an unreported hoard of silver concealed under a pile of steel scrap in a factory, the Japanese explained that they had not meant to falsify the questionnaire on precious metals; they thought the military government had asked them to report on stocks of quicksilver...
...into more than one ruckus because his politics were to the left of the trustees' -and run the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation. Says he: "I like to think of a university as a storm center. I like people to take up an issue and scrap and fight about it." He looked just right for the New School...
BOAC could scrap its obsolete clippers (as Pan Am plans to do), buy surplus U.S. landplanes. But the British Government prefers not to shock proud Britons by using U.S. planes. Britons fallaciously believe that their own planemakers will soon produce suitable landplanes. Actually, Britain's first postwar landplane, the Tudor, will not be ready until spring, has no chance to compete with U.S. planes...
...calculate coldly the amount of aluminum in her superstructure, the steel in her hull. Officers and men learned then that old Pat was through. They were not bitter. More than 200 other veterans of World War II (about 600,000 tons of warships) were also marked for the scrap heap. Considering the life she had led, Pat had lasted a long time...