Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verse of a parody of Casey Jones which China-Burma-India pilots sing: Old 87 was a pile of junk After too many hours over the Hump With her flap handle busted And her gear stove in And a great big dent in her vertical...
...answer to the thesis that production tricks learned during war could not be used in peace, economists gave merely a few examples: would U.S. farmers forget the new stunts which had enabled them to raise the greatest U.S. crops in history? Would such basic industries as steel and copper junk their new skills...
...down to the last thin line of motorcars essential to the maintenance of its civilian economy. At the rate of 4,000 a day, the nation's much-enduring cars (average age 6.3 years) are rolling off the roads into the junk piles. By year's end, the Office of Defense Transportation predicts, only 23,750,000 privately owned passenger cars will be operating...
...rose New York's Mayor LaGuardia last week before the Senate's War Investigating Committee. He was mad, as usual. This time he was fuming over the "junk-dealer philosophy" which he said was governing the disposal of surplus war property...
Winthrop Williams Aldrich, the 58-year-old president of the Chase National, world's largest bank, last week gave the U.S. his considered opinion on the Bretton Woods currency and world bank plans (TIME, July 31). His opinion: junk the plans, on which experts of 45 nations labored for months, and start all over again...