Sentence examples for war scrap from inspiring English sources

2) Alternative: Right next door to Labour's official (non)event, a positive alternative – save the planet, stop the war, scrap privatisation.

In 1942 the rails were taken up for war scrap and the golden spike drawn from where it had been driven 73 years before; the old railroad bed remains.

Opposite Wat Xieng Thong is Queen Design, where you can buy handmade Hmong batik wrap skirts, and Article 22 peacebomb jewellery, fashioned from war scrap metal; next door, Noi sells baskets and cases from Khmu communities in remote Sam Neua.

"The normal course of events would be to have scrapped that stuff during the Second World War scrap drive," said George King, a steam engineer at the Mystic Seaport maritime museum in Connecticut.

A 2005 report commissioned by UNICEF and conducted by the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining found that in one of three surveyed districts 70percentt of families in the area collected and sold war scrap.

But a steep drop in scrap-metal prices in Laos (to less than 20percentt of its peak), coupled with provincial laws banning the war-scrap trade, has left the Lao living on the trail worse off than they've been in years.

Recycling also played an important role during the second world war, when scrap metal was turned into weapons.As industrial societies began to produce ever-growing quantities of garbage, recycling took on a new meaning.

But not very much of that money reached the chronically impecunious Foster, who died, in 1864, in New York City, at the age of thirty-seven, withreeree pennies in his pocket, some Civil War scrip, and a scrap of paper on which the songwriter had written "Dear friends and gentle hearts".

"The radio rescued in this collection exists by pure chance, found on old aluminum discs that survived World War II scrap-metal drives," said David Isay, Sound Portraits' founder and executive producer.

The ship was refloated after the war and scrapped in 1946 47.

The three ships, put into the reserve fleet after the end of the war, were scrapped by the late 1950s.