Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scrap Yet. The wage-freeze order had to be thawed out almost immediately, and had to be replaced completely in a few days by a formula for a flexible system of wage controls. A first test was John L. Lewis. His coal contract (TIME, Jan. 29) had been signed before the wage freeze, to go into effect after it. The Wage Stabilization Board was ready to grant John L.'s miners the 20?-an-hour wage raise contained in the new contract. Explained one coal official: "I doubt like hell if they're going to get into...
...French, who had only reluctantly agreed to German rearmament, chose to find grounds for hope in Moscow's vague reply. There was a lot of talk in Britain and France to the effect that the West ought to stand ready to delay or scrap West Germany's defense in exchange for Russian concessions. The fact remained that no conceivable concessions by Moscow could be worth a strong Germany in the Western camp. Washington remained cool to the Russian offer. But by merely crooking its diplomatic little finger, Moscow had managed to show up (and increase) the cracks...
...Ordered manufacturers to channel all their copper and brass scrap into "normal trade sources," i.e., not into grey market conversion deals...
Autos were not the only items that were going up. In the past two weeks, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics, retail food prices had jumped 2%, with fruits, vegetables and eggs (at a 30-year high) leading the way. Pig iron was up again, and so was scrap steel; half a dozen steel companies had followed U.S. Steel's lead and raised their prices by about...
...Britain's complaint was not that the stockpile was too small, but that the U.S. had set out on a "reckless" stockpiling of everything that was scarce. "American buyers right up to the Pentagon," said one British government consultant, "have been rattling around Europe buying metals from every scrap heap...