Word: scrappings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...affairs in his Manhattan offices, hopped over to Bayonne, N.J. to have his picture taken with an old friend, the aircraft carrier Enterprise, thereby giving many a veteran a disconcerting sensation of being jerked 15 years backward in time. The Navy has marked the Big E for the scrap heap, and Old Sailor Halsey, along with some 1,400 former men of the Big E, was trying to raise $350,000 to buy the carrier and convert it into a national relic...
...other approved recordings in Riverdale, among them the complete Romeo and Juliet music of Berlioz and the Second and Fourth symphonies of Sibelius. The recordings are the fruits of a plan RCA Victor worked out with Walter Toscanini in 1954 to get the Maestro to approve or disapprove every scrap of his music recorded since 1937, when the NBC Symphony was formed...
...takes that long for the rise or fall in wholesale prices to be passed on. Last week the commodity markets showed a distinct downtrend. Copper, at a 90-year peak of 46 a lb. only last March, slumped to 34?, was expected to drop still further. No. 2 copper scrap, also a March record-breaker when it hit 45.5?, fell 20? to the lowest price in some two years as copper production outpaced demand...
...general from Chicago to Singapore, hit everything from oats to onions. Hide prices fell to a postwar low, cast-aluminum scrap fell one-half under last spring to 14? a lb., rubber futures fell as much as 80 to 120 points as Singapore traders trimmed inventories...
...most spectacular drop of all was in steel scrap (No. 1 heavy grade), which tumbled from a record high of $65.17 the week of Dec. 13 to $53.80 in just seven weeks. The worst fall since 1949, it brought a loss of as much as $12 a ton for some grades of scrap. But steel-scrap men were not panicked. They explained that the skyrocketing in scrap prices, caused by tremendous export and domestic orders, had brought out an unprecedented amount of scrap, flooding the market. (The state of New York had also helped: a new law requiring rigid examination...