Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future to be recipients of nationwide generosity." Harriman added the same thing had happened "elsewhere." A Red Cross pressagent told a newsman that Harriman meant Waco, Texas and Worcester, Mass., both scenes of destructive tornadoes last year. Teletype machines clacked out the story across the country-and the scrap...
While it is going down, they mull over their contempt for the lady's dull husband ("He hasn't a scrap of poetry in him"). The lover has just whispered: "Let us make love tonight-as never before," when he notices that the elevator is going "down and down interminably." It does not stop until the Devil ("stylishly dressed in tails that hung on [his] hairy top vertebra as on a rusty nail") opens the grille and leads the lovers into a hellish hotel bedroom. Wine is brought them by a very "stern, very grave" waiter with...
...powerful arguments. He recalls that the Spanish government that Franco set out to overthrow did not include even one Communist or Socialist, that out of more than 470 members in the Cortes, there were only 15 Communists. He also presents convincing evidence that Italy and Germany were in the scrap from the beginning. His documentation of the murder by Franco's men of 15 pro-Loyalist Basque priests after the fall of Bilbao is tragic proof that not all the outrages against the church in Spain were committed by the Reds. He also argues fairly effectively that the Loyalists...
...other products subject to roller-coaster price swings were busy setting up futures markets of their own. In Florida citrus men laid plans for a futures market in booming citrus concentrates, whose prices fluctuate as much as 60% in a season. In Chicago a futures market in scrap iron and steel will open late this summer at the huge Mercantile Exchange, where $1.3 billion worth of farm products are now sold each year. Eventually, metalmen hope to trade up to 24,000 tons of scrap iron and steel...
...Eight out of ten schools were looted by the Communists. Books were burned, equipment stolen, swings and seesaws melted down for scrap...