Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publicize charges that are not retracted with the same fanfare when proved incorrect. They criticize NHTSA for yielding to pressure groups, for failing to measure costs against benefits, and for lacking enough competent staffers. Undaunted, Claybrook aims next to get the automakers to improve seat belts and to scrap their spearlike hood ornaments, which she considers dangerous...
...bulk of SALT II does appear ready for signing. The draft of the resolved portions runs more than 50 pages. Both sides have settled the central issue, agreeing to limit their strategic arsenals to 2,250 weapons systems at least until 1985. These ceilings will require the Soviets to scrap about 300 aging rockets and bombers. The U.S. will not have to make any cuts, since its strategic weapons now total...
Police poking through the debris found few pieces of blackened scrap larger than two feet long or wide. An exception was an aircraft sign saying WELCOME. Near by two scorched dogs lay dead on their backs. All the coroner's crews could do was pick up parts of bodies and put them into yellow plastic bags. Said Deputy San Diego County Coroner Warren Chambers: "It may be many days before we will be able to match parts or even determine how many bodies we have...
Just after World War II, admirals had been nervous about the stocky ingotsize metallurgist from Penn State who badgered them to scrap their old anti-aircraft guns and start developing surface-to-air missiles. Byrom won that round-and he won the Navy's Distinguished Civilian Service Award A few years later, by-the-book bosses at Koppers Co. fumed when they learned that their young executive disobeyed orders and put in a costly distillation process. When it proved enormously profitable, they hailed...
...really mind the federal largesse, but it minded the fact that the federals wanted the town to pay 10%, which by now would amount to $21,000, almost as much as the original new snowplow that had seemed too expensive. So the town asked if it could simply scrap the construction of the snow-plow building. No, said the feds, if it did not have a construction project, it did not qualify for most FAA grants...