Word: junks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...cash and let the credit go. Neither the Pulitzer Committee nor the New York Drama Critics' Circle could find any U.S. play of the season worthy of a prize; but business was brisk enough to create acute theater shortages for weeks on end.* For a time theatrical junk collecting was so much the rage that, according to Columnist Walter Winchell, a wag hoped his new show would be able "to overcome the good notices...
...Mature, Hollywood handsome who is now a chief bosun's mate, arrived in Manhattan with a Coast Guard musical show, Tars and Spars. Long known as a "beautiful hunk of man," he was pleased to report that "the Coast Guard fellows changed it to 'beautiful hunk of junk...