Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making common cause of their enmity to the Baghdad pact, appointed Egypt's War Minister, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, as supreme commander of their three armies. Red-faced London officials admitted that Egypt had just acquired 190 British tanks, Valentines of World War II vintage, bought as scrap and reconditioned, then resold by Belgian dealers. Israel was in no condition to protest, it seemed, having just come by a quantity of surplus British tanks in like manner...
...Small-business failures." While profits and returns of big business have gone up, more small businesses have been going under. "One of the first acts of the G.O.P. was to scrap the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which had lent money to small businesses at 5% interest, and substitute a tightfisted Small Business Administration, which lent money at a minimum of 6%-often...
Guilty Cylinder. At the scene of the crash of Flight 476. the CAB men searched out every scrap of wreckage. Then all parts that might be concerned with the accident were taken to American Airlines' Overhaul and Supply Depot at Tulsa, where the No. 2 (righthand) engine, with its adjacent landing gear and wing structure was assembled in flight position. By this time the CAB detectives had a good notion where the trouble started, but they came to no decision until masses of evidence had been accumulated...
...made materials and man-trained men. There are not enough highways, schoolrooms, railroad coal gondolas, high-quality bed sheets, houses, parking places, ladies' electric razors or Lincoln Continental Mark IIs (there is a waiting list in Houston, where the delivered price is $10,700). There are shortages of scrap metal, aluminum, copper, newsprint, canned salmon, seats on airlines from Manhattan to Miami, and selenium.* There are too few salesmen, secretaries, schoolteachers, diemakers, loom fixers, machine-tool operators, mechanics, household servants...
...Solitary Singer, by Gay Wilson Allen, gave Poet Walt Whitman his sturdiest monument, a huge, perhaps overstuffed life that probably includes every available scrap of information about Walt...