Word: junked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same gloom. From the January high, when dealers had a 143-day supply on hand, less than a 60-day supply remains, 40% down from a year ago. On the West Coast, dealers have scraped through the bottom of the barrel. Throughout the country, ancient jalopies, hardly worth a junk price of $10 a few months ago, move quickly at $50 and up. Also setting established dealers to biting their nails are the number of "clean deals" (without trade-ins). The clean deal rate, normally 10 to 15% of sales, has soared to 38% in some sections; and every clean...
...melee which follows, Hope tosses fire extinguishers and miscellaneous junk in the laps of the Nazis, and a well timed intervention by a bunch of soldiers, sailors and marines succeeds in apprehending the enemy agents completely...
...United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers Union (C.I.O.) slapped a tough proposal on Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes's desk last week. Stabilize the U.S. economy fry Aug. 15, they said, in effect, or our 450,000 members will junk your "Little Steel" formula...
...Germans expended the absolute minimum on the conquered Ukrainians, extracted the utmost. For Russian handicraft products the Germans exchanged useless junk imported from the Reich. German firms opened offices in the large cities, blanketed the countryside with traveling salesmen. Solely to survive, some Ukrainians cooperated with the Nazis who had come to organize "free trade." Rather than starve, Russian bootblacks served German soldiers at street-corner stands. Other Russians opened photographic studios, candy shops, cafes. But even Berlin newspapers have admitted that the spirit of subservience to the Germans is rare in the Ukraine...
...dwellers. . . ." Born in Los Angeles, Cage was trained for the ministry, gave up the Church to study the piano in Europe. His steadfast fellow percussionist is his blonde wife Xenia Cage, surrealist sculptress, daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest. She helps Cage find his instruments of "unsuspected beauty" in junk yards and hardware stores...