Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unless the Washington Government acts soon to restore the integrity of its treaties in the Manchurian crisis, the peace machinery built up after the travail of the World War will be worthless junk. . . . Settlement of Japan's war of aggression against China is in itself a serious enough problem. But it is insignificant compared with the larger issue of rescuing the world's peace machinery...
Most uneasy diplomat in the Western Hemisphere last week was Germany's Ambassador to Argentina, Baron Edmund von Thermann. Before his eyes one of the Nazis' neatest, costliest propaganda machines was being turned into junk. What was worse, it seemed likely that he would shortly be back in Berlin where he would have to explain what went wrong...
Last July, when bustle-bottomed Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia waddled into the aluminum drive as head of OCD, rangy Bob McConnell of OPM's conservation division already had a plan. It called for collection of the scrap by local committees, its sale to junk dealers who would sell it to the smelters. But the Little Flower did not trust junk dealers. Too many already were bootlegging aluminum-utensil scrap for as high as 40? a pound (Leon Henderson's ceiling...
...items, baby carriages for example, had only two ounces of aluminum in 50 pounds of bulk. The smelters screamed because they had to pay freight on stuff they could not use; in addition had to pay men to cull the aluminum, a job usually done by the junk man. Worse still, the smelters began to run out of storage space. In relation to its bulk, some of the scrap yielded only one-third the expected aluminum...
...raise and I never knowed nothing about it till this morning and they done it yestiddy. Ever'body else on the job knowed it but me." So the radio dealers got out their oldest sets, the second-hand-car dealers got out their oldest junk. All jacked up the prices...