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...price system for iron and steel scrap was projected by OPM's scrap committee last week. Purpose: to bring out more scrap from marginal sources without letting primary suppliers clean up. Plan: Keep the base price $20 a ton or less, but make steel mills buy one-sixth of their requirements from remote areas f.o.b. In some cases this might add $14 a ton for freight...
...kept a little black book of his daily attendance record in Congress. The average was less than a day's absence per year, for 38 years. Any Texan could ask him to do anything and be sure he would try. He was a "typewriter Senator," answering every scrap of mail faithfully, always regarding himself as the errand boy of a great State...
Hungary's Little Men also promptly joined the grab. Anti-Axis Premier Count Paul Teleki had died by suicide or murder a fortnight before (TIME, April 14) and Hungary lost no time turning its four-months-old non-aggression pact with Yugoslavia into a scrap of paper. Grim, square-jawed Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy sent troops into Yugoslavia to seize 8,000 square miles of rich cornfields and dairy lands, watered by the Danube and Tisza Rivers, which the treaty makers took from Austria-Hungary after World...
...President and his advisers decide to scrap public opinion entirely and to go ahead on their deliberate course of action, this country is going to find itself in a war it doesn't want to be in, fighting, hypocritically enough, for democracy, a cause which its own government has eschewed...
Then came the first news, only an appetizer. At the far end of the hall a New York Times office boy came to the door, handed a torn-off news-ticker scrap to a Secret Service guard. The guard delivered the scrap to Times Bureau Chief Arthur Krock. Pundit Krock glanced at it, reached the scrap up to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who adjusted his pince-nez, read that Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia signed a non-aggression pact. Impassively he handed the news to Franklin Roosevelt...