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...French liner Normandie was added to the list of surplus property for sale by the Navy. Probable last trip of the 80,000-ton liner (on which the Navy spent $11 million for salvage after she burned and capsized in 1942) will be an ignoble tow to a junk yard...
Short Careers. The U.S. Maritime Commission put up for sale, as junk, four Liberty ships war-damaged beyond repair. Two of them had been torpedoed, one had been bombed, one had crashed into another vessel, was gutted by fire. If the ships are bought for scrap, purchasers must agree to destroy all motors, engines and other salvageable gear. Reason: to keep these items off an already glutted market. So far the Maritime Commission has received bids for two of the ships: $3,100 and $9,100 (they had cost upward of $1.5 million apiece...
...cauliflower ear of the prize fighter is well known. Less familiar are the banged-up "dealer shins" of the junk dealer, garbage collector, truck driver, foundry worker...
Modern Times. In Dayton, business-college authorities decided to junk the tried-&-true practice sentence, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back," substitute "A quick movement of the enemy would jeopardize sixteen gun boats...
Said Petitioner Bitle's attorney: the 175 Biddles in the Philadelphia telephone book (the Social Register lists a mere 86) already include chauffeurs and junk dealers as well as lawyers, bankers and brokers. And the state law says you can take any name you like, if you're not trying to cheat anybody...