Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Russians have a supersensitive pick-up that eavesdrops on a conversation over the telephone, through voice vibrations in the room, even when the instrument is not in use.) But in Czechoslovakia today, people simply aren't the kind who swarm into the streets looking for a scrap. Right now, I think they are just bemoaning their fate, and secretly hoping to be liberated by war between Russia...
...grimmest Russian pressure is not directly on the Allies, but on Berlin's people. One night this week, slim, dark Fritz Müller, 27, left Berlin for good. From scrap & rubble, he had built up a little clothing shop. Business was a hopeless tangle-he couldn't get thread or needles from the Western sectors, his delivery boys were detained for days at a time by Russian patrols. Last week, because he was "politically unreliable," Fritz's shop was confiscated. Oddly, it was confiscated by the same German official who ten years ago seized his furniture...
...there was one other big reason. It was the basic political fact that a state's position in the national political scene is often determined by a purely internal political scrap. Nowhere was that clearer than in Pennsylvania, the host to the convention, the traditional home of rugged Republicanism, the Keystone State whose 73 votes are second in weight only to New York...
...Scrap. Japan, a big prewar buyer of U.S. steel scrap, offered to sell some postwar scrap. Through the New York trade office of SCAP (Supreme Commander for Allied Powers), the Japanese Board of Trade offered 137,000 metric tons of steel and scrap to the highest U.S. bidders...
When the National Health Assembly (called by the Federal Security Administration) met in Washington last week, everybody expected a scrap. The American Medical Association, champion of medicine-as-it-is, was in one corner. In the other: spokesmen for farm groups, labor unions, consumers' associations and minority medical groups, all of which believe that U.S. medical care is too expensive and fails to reach the people who need it most...