Word: scrapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first four months of 1925, imports into this country of iron and steel have reached the comparatively large total of 321,435 tons, consisting of 173,249 tons of pig iron, 205,979 tons of pig iron and alloys, 36,240 tons of scrap and 79,216 tons of finished and semi-finished steel. But these figures include imports of such raw material as ferromanganese and other steel alloys. Also they amount to only 0.65 of 1% of U. S. steel production during the first four months of 1925. The imports of finished and semi-finished steel, in fact, amount...
Many a keen industrialist who keeps his eyes on things has proposed to buy them for scrap at scrap prices. But all was not generally known until the Chairman of the Shipping Board ("T. V. O'C.") made a speech, last week, to some travelers on a boat plying between Detroit and Buffalo...
...Connor simply said he had had audience with Henry Ford, from whom he had wrung a tentative offer to take 400 of the listless bottoms at something between $1 and $7 per ton (scrap price). At $3 per ton, the entire listless fleet of 5,700,000 tons would bring about $17,000,000. Mr. Ford would probably pay about half that for about half the fleet-all is quite vague. Mr. Ford thought he might use 30 or perhaps only 10 for commerce; the rest for junk...
...consider the Russo-Japanese Treaty to be a scrap of paper of no significance whatever. When the international revolution is brought about Japan has a possibility of being the vanguard State. As to the education of Communists in Japan, I will propagate the Soviet doctrines and principles among the Japanese Young Men's Associations in order to build the foundation for the future organization of an influential Communist Party in Japan...
Great plumbing economies were effected by passing water through scrap iron before letting it enter the pipes. The scrap iron exhausted the water's corrosive powers, latent in dissolved air. ?Robert J. McKay, International Nickel...