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...work and tried out at various vocations to discover what pleased me; and if I found I needed more book learning, then, and only then, I could return to the proper school to learn what I needed, instead of being filled with a lot of useless junk that the educational experts thought I should be filled with...
Until it came time to move, the Atlanta Constitution never realized how much junk it had around the house. There was a steamboat wheel in a tobacco-stained corner, a stuffed mallard duck suspended uncertainly over the city desk, a sign that said: DON'T STARE AT THE EDITOR-YOU MAY BE CRAZY YOURSELF SOME...
...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...