Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scrap For Big Three Crown...
Hollywood was the scene of another rewriting of the Declaration of Independence. Film Director Herbert Biberman, shooting a picture at San Pedro Harbor, watched a boat loading scrap iron for Japan. It occurred to him that it takes something besides bandages for China to fight scrap iron for Japan, and that the peaceful artisans of Hollywood have most to lose from the world rise of militarism and dictatorship. He talked with Actors Melvyn Douglas and Edward G. Robinson. They all talked with Clark Eichelberger, a League of Nations advocate and chairman of the Committee for Concerted Peace Efforts. After...
Walrus tusks. In 1922 Dr. Groves examined a farm boy with a deep cavity in the upper end of his thighbone. No scrap of human bone that Dr. Groves could safely snip from the boy was large enough to fill the space, so he procured a piece of ivory from a walrus tusk, carved it to order, planted it in the cavity. Last October, said Dr. Groves, "a fresh radiogram [Xray] showed that the ivory graft had remained without change as a strut round which human bone had been deposited." Since the operation the patient "has never had any disability...
What took place on the Carpatho-Ukrainian border last week, however, was no mere guerrilla scrap but several minor military actions and one small, desperate, pitched battle. The suspicion was that these were instigated by Germany and, besides being a warning to Hungary to lay off, were possibly the Nazis' first violent move toward setting up the nucleus of the Greater Ukrainian State...
...stream of thousands of refugees who had chosen to flee Hankow rather than live under Japanese rule. Piled inside the tottering rikishas were all the manhole covers, sewer gratings and radiators the Chinese could gather before the Japanese captured the city on October 26. The destination of this scrap-iron convoy is Chungking, China's new capital 500 miles upriver from Hankow, where the junk will be converted into shrapnel...