Word: junk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole in the ground in Menlo Park, N. J., where Thomas A. Edison and his helpers threw their laboratory junk...
...demand for his books revived. But Publishers Farrar & Rinehart had thrown away their chance to make any money on Fletcher's autobiography. The week before, they had sold their remaining stock of Life Is "remainders" My named Song to Max a Salop. dealer in book Max Salop, literary junk man, is known to few outside the book business. But in side the business, he is a familiar legend...
With all his genius for selling literary junk, Max Salop has an almost wistful ambition to become a "legitimate" publisher. In 1933 he bought the highbrow Dial Press from Ambassador to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh and took a beating for art's sake. He lost money-probably the only time in his career. But he hung on proudly till...
Barney Connett's homemade, one-man pigboat is twelve feet long, weighs 1,000 pounds, was put together with automobile parts and miscellaneous junk at a cost of $4,000, is powered by a battery-driven electric motor. Last autumn, lying on his belly in his submerged sub, Barney Connett bored his way from Michigan City to Chicago (63 miles) in 10 hrs. 30 min. Last week he was testing a two-way radio with two stations on shore. His motor brushes burned out, his craft stalled. "Send out a boat!" radioed Submariner Connett. "Send out a boat before...
Last winter he planned to sail a Chinese junk across the Pacific to San Francisco and the Fair. Just before he sailed he wrote: "I want to steer her straight into the Golden Gate, where a long time ago I first saw a whitesailed schooner and first heard the call...