Word: junk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week The March of Time reported to its listeners that American Airlines had disposed of the wreckage of the airplane near Goodwin, Ark. for junk and souvenirs. An entirely erroneous impression has been created in the minds of some concerning our efforts at Goodwin...
...contract was made with a Forrest City salvage dealer that he would speedily remove the metal from the scene of the accident and that he would dispose of it for junk, not souvenirs. . . . The small amount realized from the lump of melted metal was given as a donation to the American Red Cross...
While a great roll of blueprints was arriving at a Shanghai shipyard last week, a number of wealthy U. S. sportsmen were receiving in their morning mail an illustrated brochure entitled "A CRUISE FROM HONG KONG TO PARIS ABOARD AN OCEAN-GOING NING PO JUNK. It is the idea of a few men who have sailed together before. They need a few additional subscribing shipmates." Subscription for a six-month cruise in the poop of a Chinese junk: $3,000 in advance. Not quite so mad as it sounded was the Ning Po Junk expedition. It was a bitter blow...
Master of the Chinese junk will be a Rhode Island Irishman named Thomas Francis ("Ted") Kilkenny, who served as a Junior Lieutenant in the Navy during the War, has sailed square riggers to Alaska, lost his money in a tuna fishing com pany off Southern California and has al ready had one yacht built in China. Last winter he served as captain of another expedition, whose object was to dig up treasure supposedly buried near the island of Dominica by a political opponent of the late President Gomez of Venezuela. They never found the treasure ; the ship lost its rudder...
Kilkenny's other shipmates include Count Ilya Tolstoy, cinema photographer, grandson of the novelist. Count Tolstoy is whiling away the time for the junk to be built by persuading his friends to invest in a concrete stadium for fighting-fish fights near St. Augustine...