Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipped 8.222,259 tons of scrap to Japan from 1936 to 1940 (when exports were finally prohibited in October). That scrap is gone forever. Another is the fact that railroads are patching up more old freight cars (ordinarily a big source of scrap), are using many a junk-worthy car for storage of coal. But the chief reason is that the nation's steel mills, breaking one production record after another, are now using scrap at the rate of at least 30,000,000 tons a year, and scrapmen are gathering only 24,000,000 tons a year...
...brings steel production down, it will probably be a shortage of pig iron and scrap. Pig was close to formal priorities last week, with defense already taking almost all its output. Scrap is short partly because it is under badly adjusted price controls, without sufficient price-incentive to hinterland junk dealers...
...Ichang neared, the bag of rice was shifted again to a duck-bottomed little junk. Five miles and one river bend above Ichang (the high-water mark of Japanese penetration) the junk ran onto the bank, and the bag of rice was loaded on a coolie's back. The coolie, who carried the rice up a wire-tangled gully toward Divisional H.Q., could hear the boom of artillery. But it was not Chinese artillery...
Boarding her craft upstream at the Cambridge Club, the Bunnies' new coxswain, Patty David of Dallas, successfully piloted her charges, all of them hanging at the catch, past a cheering Weld Boathouse float and disappeared downstream in the direction of Peter Black's Chinese Junk...
Freeman Koo '42 recently finished computing an oriental horoscope for the junk and, after prophesying a glorious future, named it and painted its title in Chinese. At the ceremonies preceding the launching, according to present plans, the old Chinese custom of serving rice will be observed...