Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries: West Germany (up 12%), France (up 13%), the French-directed Saar (up 40%), Belgium (up 25%), Italy (up 29%), The Netherlands (up 12%), and Austria (up 10%). Only Britain, Europe's largest single steel producer, is below her 1950 output (by 4%), partially because of shortages of scrap and coke...
...Soldier-Diplomat Patrick J. Hurley, who recently made Oklahoma's Hall of Fame, landed in still another niche: the Denver Post's Hall of Fame, for his "outstanding leadership and success" as chairman of the Rocky Mountain Scrap Mobilization Committee...
Last week it manfully did. In a letter to the U.S.-owned Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., India's government promised to change its ways and its laws, persuaded Standard-Vacuum to build a $35 million refinery near Bombay. Specifically, the government would scrap the law that Indians must own 51% of the stock of a foreign company. It would give unbreakable guarantees against nationalization for 25 years at least. The refinery will be allowed to import crude oil free of duty, and will get tariff protection...
...regents of the University of California finally put an end to the two-year battle of the loyalty oath (TIME, June 27, 1949 et seq.). Without waiting for the state supreme court to decide its constitutional status, they voted to scrap the whole idea of special oaths for faculty-men and other university employees...
...stated, "the government imposes its will on the people... Instead of looking trustfully toward it for enlightened leadership, the people apprehensively await the next official directive, the next arbitrary restriction, the next capricious bureaucratic regulation. In short, we have stood by complacently while a concerted effort was made to scrap the time-honored system of government by laws, in favor of government...