Word: junking
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...rose New York's Mayor LaGuardia last week before the Senate's War Investigating Committee. He was mad, as usual. This time he was fuming over the "junk-dealer philosophy" which he said was governing the disposal of surplus war property...
Winthrop Williams Aldrich, the 58-year-old president of the Chase National, world's largest bank, last week gave the U.S. his considered opinion on the Bretton Woods currency and world bank plans (TIME, July 31). His opinion: junk the plans, on which experts of 45 nations labored for months, and start all over again...
...steel industry's insatiable appetite for scrap was suddenly sated. With scrap piling up in U.S. junk yards, scrap prices on major grades last week fell as much as $1.50 a ton below the ceilings for the first time since April 1941. Scrap dealers had been permitted to charge $1 over the ceilings to even up shipping costs from different parts of the U.S. Last week this "springboard" was disappearing fast...
...point was to get the junk off what furniture wasn't smashed and patch the roof quick against rain. . . . The blast had pushed the back and front walls some eight inches from the sidewalks so we couldn't risk ladders. We had to climb the inner sidewall and snake a tarpaulin through, weight it and throw it over the front and back walls since you couldn't stand on them. And you never knew when the floors would go. Yes it was a bit sticky, that...
...Homer Thomas, junk dealer: "He comes as near writing like a man talking as anybody I've ever read. Ernie's not afraid to get over there and dig this stuff...