Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stove-Struck. Mrs. Lucas, who once ran a restaurant in London, arrived in the U.S. in 1942, with two trunks of pots & pans and no money. With borrowed funds and a $40 stove which she "found in a junk heap,"she started the Cordon Bleu. Several thousand students (including such stove-struck celebrities as Harold Lloyd, Joan Fontaine and Nicholas Roosevelt, and many a society girl about to marry) have gone to school in her kitchen. Mrs. Lucas does all the marketing, cooking, teaching and telecasting herself, and writes cookbooks in her spare time (last week she was working...
...come to the end of a policy. At Bogotá, the American nations had agreed to junk the old practice of not recognizing dictatorial or unpopular governments. Last week the U.S. (and Colombia) recognized the sovereign state of Nicaragua, ruled over by smirking, slippery Dictator Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza...
...Edgar Parrett, who was named Queen for a Day to the tune of $35,000 (TIME, March 15), is worried because "a lot of the junk I won hasn't been delivered yet." She doesn't know what to do with her trailer: "I haven't used it at. all, not even once. It's parked here in the yard." Her Persian lamb coat had to be sent back ("They did not have my size; I need a much larger one"). She has stored her stove and refrigerator, but likes to ride around the Navajo reservation...
...things K-F wanted to get rid of, e.g., jigs and dies for K-F's abandoned front-wheel-drive auto, aluminum scrap left over from experiments with car bodies. Koons told the committee he lost $500,000 on sale of the tie-in junk. But, through his steel, he netted a $14,000 final profit on the whole deal. The committee got an eye-opening account of how fast steel gets around in the grey market and how fast the price goes...
...least three of last fall's Varsity football players are caught between football and baseball, but two of them, guard Nick Rodis and back Chip Gannon, are expected to junk the latter sport in favor of an all-out drive for Valpey...