Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firing, combat troops turned out to help the Ordnancemen sort and pile the spoils. Usable equipment was repaired and cleaned up in the Ordnance depots, which can fix anything from a field gun to a cookstove. But not all captured materiel was usable. Much of it was just plain junk...
Slow Scrap. After the choice pieces were culled, the remaining litter of battle was trucked to dumps. Flame-twisted tank fragments, broken rifles, smashed helmets are worthless except as scrap for the steel furnaces of U.S. and Britain. Most of this junk of battle may stay where it is in the scrap piles of Tunisia: few home-bound ships can spare the extra days to load...
...waving a dragon's red-and-gold head and twisted tail. Drums and gongs beat madly, rockets hissed, the galleries roared-and the race was on. Twice across the river the rowers strained. In other times, the crews decided the outcome by fighting. Now, from a judges' junk, the winners received their prizes: bright red sashes...
Good-by to Model T. In later years Edsel's job was to keep the company up to date. It was Edsel who finally persuaded Henry to junk the obsolete Model T and bring out the gearshift Model A. It was Edsel who argued for snappier designs, brighter colors, a complete line of low-priced cars. And when it became plain that the U.S. might be drawn into World War II, it was Edsel who counteracted his father's bone-deep hatred...
With the technical advice of three grownups, J.A. members rotate the dull jobs and the executive ones, decide the relative merits of expansion v. current dividends, ponder how to stay solvent (they rarely go broke). In peacetime they concentrated on gadgets-cigaret boxes, desk sets, junk jewelry, garden furniture. War hit them with just about all the troubles that plague their elders, except contract renegotiation and absenteeism (which is rare, since the six to twelve hours of weekly work is fun at wages that run up to 35? an hour...