Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government rushed up two army battalions from the provinces. Police brought out their tear gas. After routing Communist-led student rioters from a university-building strongpoint, government forces advanced into the northern working-class districts. There the rioters fought stubbornly with small hand grenades made of cement, scrap iron and dynamite, apparently brought from the tin mines. Finally the army, firing a few mortar shells, drove the rioters into the hills rimming...
Into the Papers will go not only some 18,000 letters written by Jefferson, but 25,000 or more that were written to him by others. To be included: practically every recoverable scrap Jefferson ever wrote, from his state papers and his travel notes down to his jottings and essays on the scores of subjects which interested him, from the Anglo-Saxon language to recipes for macaroni and ice cream. Already, Editor Boyd has over 50,000 items on tap from more than 425 sources, and more are trickling in all the time...
...Scrap Material, Disposal of." The first step in the educational process is to teach the teachers. The teachers are called "field men" and Coca-Cola employs about 300 of them, half of them Americans. They are scooped up like so many bottles at the front end of a Coke bottling line, and are put through a preliminary two weeks' training in New York, during which they are thoroughly rinsed of any wrong ideas they may have had about Coke. Then they move along the assembly line to various U.S. plants, where they are filled brimful with Coca-Cola lore...
...sudden scramble for materials had once again brought a few familiar whiffs of inflation: steel scrap jumped as much as $1 a ton last week, and the prices of copper, zinc and lead had all bounced higher. Prices of building materials also had moved steadily upward with the upsurge in building. Even Leon Keyserling, acting chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, who had been gloomy about industry's capacity to keep expanding and make more jobs, said: "I am enormously encouraged...
...Harvard Square, as the result of some 20 arrests in the last year, the bookies have wised up. They seldom write down a number or horse's name, or keep any other scrap of evidence which might be used against them. To make an arrest the police need only find a slip of paper in a suspect's pocket bearing at least a dozen numbers. Depending on the judge and the number of previous arrests, the defendant may get probation, a suspended sentence, a stiff fine ($50-$1000), or a jail sentence--sometimes coupled with another fine...