Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scrap plans for a buildup to 133 combat wings by next July and substitute a goal of only no wings. Though Air Force brass would like to see most of this cut come out of the 28 tactical wings which the U.S. has promised to NATO, Air Secretary Harold Talbott passed the word that the U.S. NATO commitment must stand unchanged. The alternative: a major reduction in the planned size of the Strategic Air Command and U.S. air-defense forces...
...Westerner who knows his West. He was born on a hay and cattle ranch, near Fernley, Nev., 33 years ago. Extracurricular grammar-school activity, he says, "consisted of fighting daily with a Mexican boy named Jesse Arenaz, and, in eight years of furious effort, never winning a scrap...
...total industrial production of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations, and provides work for one out of every ten of their workers -had actually been brought under a single command. By so doing, the plan had: 1) established a common market for coal, iron ore, scrap and steel; 2) eliminated customs duties, quotas, currency controls and double pricing. In long-divided Europe, that in itself was a very big accomplishment...
...Scrap. Order has been brought to a price scramble where Italy paid as high as $85 a ton for scrap from India, while The Netherlands held its own price down to $22.50 by strict controls. A common market has established a price of $33 a ton (v. the U.S.'s $43), and Italy, which still has to depend on high-priced foreign scrap, gets a subsidy from the other Schumania nations to make up the difference. At first, France's government tried to buck the common market with its own cartel designed to limit exports, but yielded when...
...months of this year, swept up 9,000 tons of wastepaper and sold it for $104,343, compared to a Democratic take of $54,219 for a similar period last year. The reason: instead of wasting paper by heaving it all into one basket, GSA trashmen now sort the scrap into eight piles graded according to recovery value. Thus old income-tax records bring $60 a ton, engineering maps $90, and corrugated containers $20, while mixed scrap formerly brought a meager...