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...Freshman contest was virtually identical in its details with the Varsity match: it was not until the doubles were played out that the scrap was decided...
...insist that Japan get out of China and stay out of the East Indies, but he had no big stick. The Army & Navy wanted soft talk, to give them more time. So did the British, the Dutch. Mr. Hull could not explain to the U.S. public that oil and scrap iron shipped to Japan were not meant to purchase peace but to buy time. His position was made torture by public clamor for a "strong stand" and by Chinese pressure for vigorous action...
...smelters who hold no priorities, almost any kind of steel scrap is worth almost any price. No. 1 bootleg method is to "upgrade" a load of low-grade scrap with a thin top layer of good scrap, sell the whole thing at the top limit for good stuff, exchange winks with the buyer...
...caustic soda and other chemicals, it is possible to extract about 25 Ib. of tin oxide (readily smelted to a grade equivalent to Straits tin) per ton. The detinned sheet steel, once despised and used only for rough castings such as sash weights, is now in big demand by scrap-hungry steelmakers...
...diplomacy, business and war were three different things. The U.S. lagged in setting up stockpiles, sold scrap and oil to unfriendly nations...