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...Right now there is an annual deficit of twelve million tons of coke in Western Europe. [But] we have been able to wipe out this deficit by simple cooperation. . . . We have recommended that henceforth no more coke shall be used for heating houses or stoking factory boilers. All available European coke is to go straight into steelmaking. . . . Blast furnaces shall use more scrap. . . . Germany is littered with scrap...
...become so bad that it now jeopardizes the economy of our country . . . thousands of small manufacturers [are] dying for steel; for lack of steel, failures of small businesses are becoming a daily occurrence." Kaiser also managed to get in a plug for his old plea that RFC should wipe out the $85 million balance due on Fontana (TIME, June...
...safety of Albany. But Dewey was well aware of the old suspicion in the West that Tom Dewey was just a little too fluent, a little too much the slick Easterner, that actually he was as ardent an advocate of Big Government as any New Dealer. He had to wipe out those suspicions...
...ducks do not have much sense, a dog's bark or a floating feather may scare them into piling up in great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association recently hired a retired physician to conduct research into cures, he had difficulty getting information from tight-lipped quack farmers. During the prosperous war years, duck farmers netted anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 a year-thanks partially to the 90? a pound they...
Since Adam, agricultural thinkers have longed for a magic wand to make weeds disappear. The trouble is that weeds and crop plants are much alike; one farmer's weed may be another's crop. Any wholesale killer is apt to wipe out both together...