Word: junking
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...Junk at Goodwin...
...sell two and a half used cars. A used-car buyer generally has an old one to trade in too. By the end of the third transaction in this series the dealer will probably have on his floor what the trade calls a "jallopy"'-anything from plain junk to a museum piece...
Another plan, for eliminating jallopies was prompted by General Motors' Richard H. Grant and approved by the industry's trade body. Dealers were rewarded for each jallopy junked. Difficulty was to prove that a car really had been junked. The rules provided that radiators be crushed, carburetors smashed, engine block cracked, transmission ruined, grease plug driven into the rear housing, etc. Nevertheless, chiseling was rampant, since a wreck was worth only $3 as junk while a reasonably complete car brought $12. Moreover, junk dealers often managed to salvage something which could be sold in competition with new factory...
National Association of Waste Material (junk) Dealers...
...into the State's German Christian Church, that last week Realmleader Hitler's only recourse was to try a finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered to junk Dr. Müller and appoint as Reich Bishop the opposition's candidate, gentle, widely beloved Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh. Herr Kerrl also offered to let the opposition nominate a majority of the members of the new German Christian Church directorate which he promised to appoint instanter...