Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bicycles. At a New York Police Department auction sale, 1,500 people tried to buy 88 secondhand bicycles, paid as high as $37 apiece for them. But 155 cars had no buyers, were sold for junk...
Used-car sales are just as bad-maybe worse. Prices are 25% to 33% below last year. At a New York City Police Department "lost-strayed-or-stolen" auction, 1,500 bidders bypassed 155 second-hand cars (except as junk), bid up to $37 for second-hand bicycles. In the Carolinas, new and used-car sales were off 50%; in Florida, many a disgusted dealer got ready to quit; in Maine, there were more sellers than buyers. Even in the gasoline-rich West and Midwest, rumors of rationing slowed sales down...
Stop Salvage. Zealous patriots, spurred on by Government salvage campaigns, have buried paper mills and junk collectors in wastepaper. Lack of further storage space made Lessing Rosenwald, chief WPB junkman, cry "uncle" last week. He begged collectors to hold their paper...
...They go aboard like planes or tanks-ready for use in any emergency. One reason is obvious: Suppose a shipment of CKDs to Rangoon, where there were adequate assembly facilities, had to be diverted after Rangoon's fall to Ceylon, where there are not? The CKDs would become junk. Anyway, speed looks more important than space saving to the Army now. Hence three-fourths of the "cubic" of many ships to Australia continues to be wasted. Last week Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade told Oakland shipyard workers that thousands of needed Army trucks have been stored...
...abound, admitted that in peacetime Mr. Jones had been a good jinnee from a banker's point of view. As boss of RFC, the Department of Commerce, a dozen other related and unrelated New Deal agencies, he saved many a bank, railroad and factory from the financial junk heap, made money for the Government...