Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feature Rebecca West who has written so much trash! Nobody reads her junk-except those who think it fashionable due to the false publicity your magazine makes the public swallow...
...quantity is short, quality is a lot better. There would not be much of the junk that cluttered up counters during the war. Some of the newer gadgets are precision jobs. Samples: a dump truck with a hydraulic lift; a scale model of a concrete mixer that pours real cement out of a hand-operated drain...
...Steelmen? That was no overstatement. Production in August was only 6,000 cars, and in September, 7,597. Hardly anyone expected that the figure would go any higher for the last three months of this year. As the railroads were sending 6,500 cars a month to the junk yards, the U.S. was barely making more cars than it lost. Though freight traffic is up 80% over 1940, U.S. railroads now have about the same number of freight cars (2,000,000-odd) as they had then. Everybody concerned pointed the blame at the other fellow...
Died. Richard Le Gallienne, 81, top-ranking translator of romantic French verse, tireless romantic poet (Lonely Dancer, The Junk-Man and Other Poems'), father of Actress Eva Le Gallienne in Mentone, France...
...week's end no one had. But Railroader Robert R. Young, whose Chesapeake & Ohio is one of the 57 railroads that now own Pullman, informally rapped ICC.* "It's a pity," said he, "that the company is getting an 'increase in fares on the old junk that...