Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Ecology Action will accept all kinds of scrap metal and will sell it for $10 a ton. Aluminum, which sells for $200 a ton, will be collected in separate containers...
...effect has been the opposite. Indeed, the Arab decision may have the salutary effect of fostering Common Market solidarity. Dutch sources indicate that The Netherlands may stall preparations for the Arab-European conference proposed for late this year until the Arabs scrap the embargo. They are receiving support from, of all nations, France, which is the conference's prime sponsor. Says French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert: "The Arabs cannot expect Europe to deal with them as a unit if they continue to discriminate against members of the Common Market...
...SCRAP of newspaper blows among the litter of the railroad tracks. A group of people wait on Platform 5 of Baltimore's Penn Station for the 9:45 a.m. train to New York. A middle-aged man dressed in a spotless grey-flannel suit waits nervously with his wife. Her face is heavily powdered and her hair is piled high on her head. Close to the track a wrinkled-looking man in a creased sear-sucker sports coat checks his watch and begins to pace in a narrow circle. His sparse white mustache stands out on his lined black face...
...flash fire that on Jan. 27, 1967, cost the lives of Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, and came very close to fatally dampening national enthusiasm for space flight as well. Recently, launch towers and other equipment at the complex that cost $68 million were sold as scrap...
...findings are the yield of six months of hard digging by three Star reporters: Bill Anderson, 48, Harley Bierce, 32, Dick Cady, 33, assisted by Photographer Jerry Clark, 34. The quartet depended heavily on clandestine meetings with over 400 informants, nearly 60 of them policemen. They tape-recorded every scrap of information. The work had its hazards: the reporters were often trailed by the police, and telephoned threats became common...