Word: junks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Suds in Your Eye (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Mary Lasswell's novel; produced by Katherine Brown and J. H. Del Bondio) chronicles the capers of three beer-befuddled old girls in a San Diego junk yard. Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...
Boss of the Fifth Ward. Mike Scat is one of the more fragrant characters in U.S. municipal politics. Son of an Italian junk dealer, he went to high school and Georgetown University. Before he finished college, Frank Hague called him home to boss the Fifth Ward, where most of Jersey City's 70,000 Italians live...
...factor may knock predictions into the junk pile - unpredictable 80-year-old Henry Ford. For months, he has diligently streamlined his company, getting back to his first principles of cheap cars and no frills (TIME, Oct. 11). His low-price fetish once cracked the industry's price structure wide open. It may do so again...
...Junk: Chinese ships of yore or Japanese fleet of the future...
...Once he said: "Give them any color they want as long as it's black." Stubbornly sticking to these ideas, he continued to turn out his Model T until it was hopelessly obsolete. Up-&-coming Chevrolet-and the modernizing influence of his late son Edsel-forced him to junk Model T in 1927. By then he had lost a big chunk of the cheap-car market. He has never regained it. From then on Edsel's influence caused the Ford Co. to cater to the public. Edsel established the styling division-Fords had been designed by Detroit...