Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been warned to expect-however harassed they may think they have been heretofore. It would mean that nonwar manufacturers-even those who are limping along without using critical materials or machinery needed elsewhere in its present form-are about to see their means of production go to the junk pile. More important to the U.S. as a whole, it would mean that, when peace comes, there will be no machinery left that is designed to produce for the inevitable tidal wave of post-war civilian demand. $40 for $4,000. An index of what such wholesale destruction would mean came...
...over the U.S. movie theaters had their lobbies piled high with more free-admission junk. Churches and women's clubs competed for city prizes. The Hobo News scrapped a two-ton press...
...double-elliptical, high-uffen-buffen, double-turreted, back-acting submarine war junk. . . . She is about the shape of a sweet potato that has burst in the boiling. She draws 14 feet of mud forward, and 16 ft. 6 in. of slime aft, and has three feet of discolored water over the maindeck in fair weather. . . . All the clinkers, ashes, buckets, shovels, etc. and an occasional sleepy coal passer are sucked up the flue and blown thousands of miles...
...Northern Ireland. Australia, Iceland, Trinidad, Egypt, Midway or Brooklyn Navy Yard had better send things that are wanted. Last week, just in time for givers, the Department Store Economist published the results of a poll in which 1,000 servicemen rated 51 potential gifts as "swell," "fair" or "junk...
When Grandma reads that 25% of the soldiers and 31% of the sailors think mufflers are junk, she'll think twice before casting on the stitches. The case for sleeveless sweaters is about as bad. She would do better to have her picture (and pictures of friends and family) taken and send them along. She could send a pocketknife or, better still, a pocket Bible. Over 49% of the soldiers and 58% of the sailors rated Bibles swell, would rather have the whole thing than just the New Testament...