Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week that the U.S. would probably have to swallow another general steel price rise. Noting that Bethlehem Steel's nine-month net earnings tumbled (from $122.6 million to $99.6 million) along with those of other companies, because of the steel strike, Chairman Grace said that spiraling costs for scrap, ore and transportation had more than gobbled up the $8.50-a-ton price rise of last August...
Full Speed Ahead. On Truk. in the Caroline Islands, War Surplus Salvager Oliver C. Stine ordered a native workman to chop apart an awkwardly shaped, 1,000-lb. chunk of rusted scrap, took over the acetylene torch himself when the workman failed to make satisfactory progress, got positive results whenthe object's outer casing began smoking and split open, hurriedly stopped salvaging when he peered inside, recognized a Japanese torpedo warhead...
...army of World War II. ex-Army Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 36, credited with dispatching 40 Nazi soldiers to the glory of the Third Reich, landed a job after long spells of sickness and penury (TIME, Oct. 1). Kelly, taken on .by a St. Louis scrap-metal outfit as a contact man. said happily: "I'm among friends here...
...triumph through the gate in 1806, and the conqueror ordered it carted off to Paris. Brought back again by the Prussians in 1815 (when it acquired an iron cross surrounded by an oak leaf topped by an eagle), it remained in place until Russian artillery knocked it to scrap during the Battle of Berlin in World...
Almost from the day of its adoption, the provision in Italy's 1948 constitution calling for establishment of a court similar to the U.S. Supreme Court has been unpopular with the nation's Demo-Christian rulers. Reason: the court would obviously scrap many of Italy's 708 "public security" laws, which the government regards as its chief bulwark against the internal Communist threat but which are for the most part Mussolini's handiwork. Many of the laws clearly violate the civil liberties guaranteed by the 1948 constitution...