Word: junks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family groups in fours and fives pushed and pulled at carts loaded with all their possessions. There were trucks of all kinds, American trucks almost new and G.M.C.s ready for the junk yard. There were old German trucks burning stinking diesel oil, commercial trucks burning sweet-smelling alcohol. Every truck was piled five to ten feet high with baggage or goods. Humanity clustered over the baggage on the trucks, over the mudguards, over the driver...
...Junk the Trolley? As usual, E. Roy Fitzgerald, 51, the taciturn president of National City Lines, kept his plans for Los Angeles to himself and his brothers: Ed, 60,'the quiet, conservative treasurer; Ralph, 49, hard-driving boss of operations and maintenance; Kent, 45, who runs the Illinois operations for National; and John, 54, head of an independent bus line...
...mechanical detail never has been licked: the one-ton jeep locomotives have no effective brakes. Pushed by a weight many times greater than its own, one jeep plowed into a bullock standing listlessly on the tracks, was telescoped into junk by the cars behind and tossed up on top of a boxcar. So far, ten jeeps have been wrecked. Drivers have escaped injury by leaping clear...
...broadened again if it pans out. Chief argument in favor of it: disposal would be in the hands of those who knew the market best, could feed in surpluses without disrupting it. Biggest objection: disposable surpluses might be held off the market indefinitely and end up as junk, while a manufacturer sold his own new product...
...expected to go to James Sheppard, Los Angeles attorney. Lieut. Colonel Joseph P. Woodlock, onetime executive of the Crucible Steel Co., now executive assistant to Will Clayton, is an outside choice for the third job. But Washington also gossiped that the President may soon ask Congress to junk the board and hand the job back...