Word: junking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel industry last week was operating at 36.4% of capacity. Steel scrap, which accounts for nearly one-half of new steel, sold for almost $22 a ton in April, was down last week to $13.41. These melancholy facts trouble everyone in the junk business.* In Chicago the junk business is especially troubled, for retail junk shop owners for the last two months have been having trouble with the men who collect and sell them their scrap. About 1,500 junkmen, members of the United Junk Peddlers' Association-a C. I. O. affiliate -struck against the retailers for union recognition...
Meantime in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Junk Peddlers' Union, with 150 members who would like to join C. I. O. but say they cannot afford the dues, donated $50 to the Chicago strike, prepared to demand that the city keep children and organized charities from cutting in on their business. Said Harry Morgenstein, the union's business agent: "If the country doesn't want the families of about 300 junk collectors on relief, something will have to be done to stop this unfair competition from organizations like the Salvation Army...
...have large holdings in Rumania's key industries, especially those to which the Government can throw contracts. Mme Lupescu for years was in mortal terror of assassination by Rumania's anti-Semitic Iron Guard, more recently has been famed as its "largest contributor." Last week this able junk-dealer's daughter seemed on the point of realizing a majestic ambition: a second Nahlin cruise, this time with the world's tabloids headlining Mme Lupescu...
...young floor trader for a brokerage house in the early 1880s, Mr. Smythe first learned what treasure is sometimes wrapped in apparently worthless paper. Instructed to sell as junk some old Southern State bonds, young Smythe disposed of most of them for $2 apiece, gave one South Carolina bond to a friend who prom-ised to split any profits he might make on a mysterious sale. A month later Smythe received a check for $400. He lost no time in writing to the Treasurer of South Carolina, who informed him that that particular bond had been redeemable...
...story) and Gottfried work as mechanics; all share and share alike. But repair jobs are few, and it is always a question how long they can keep going. Otto's prize possession is a rattletrap car they call Karl, which looks only fit for the junk-pile but is actually a tenderly groomed greyhound of the road. Besides drinking, their favorite sport is to cruise along in Karl till they find a swank car, then lure it into a race...