Word: junks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are authentic scenes as well: Francie and her brother collecting junk in the Brooklyn slums; purchases of five-cent soup bones, stale bread and smashed pies; the traditional childhood customs and mores of the Brooklyn streets. Example: storekeepers on Christmas Eve tossed their unsold trees at children; if the children stood upright under the impact of a tree, they could have it free...
...Returning from Stalingrad, where he saw immense junk piles of wrecked Nazi planes and tanks, the hard-bitten U.S. Ambassador, Admiral William H. Standley, said: "I can now believe almost any [Red] claims...
Revolt of the Nags. In The Bronx, a junk-wagon horse named Brownie ran away on a hot day, clattered down a flight of steps to a cellar door, broke in, relaxed in comfort. In Brooklyn, a milkwagon horse named Jerry deserted the beat he had been traveling for 13 years, clumped 17 miles off his course, stopped in front of a house, went to the front door and knocked. He got a two-day vacation...
...worried WPB revealed last week that in the twelve months ending June 30 some 1,500,000 U.S. cars were driven to the junk heap. This was many more than WPB had expected (although a normal peace year's scrapping was 2,350,000 cars). The new car stock pile is down to 100,000, will be exhausted...
...call it "the incomprehensible machinery of Chinese aid." But it was not machinery. A chain of human beings, protective, silent, efficient, carried them from one hiding place to an other. For almost two months, Lawson and his crew were handed across a vast stretch of China by litter, flatboat, junk, stretcher, sedan chair, charcoal-burning truck, bus, station wagon, train, plane. Most of the time, young Dr. C., indefatigable, kind, intelligent, was at their side. Several days after the raid he had walked all night, 26 miles, and all day, 26 miles back, to bring the American flyers...