Word: junks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more steam behind its junk-your-jalopy campaign, in New York and New Jersey asked auto dealers and junkmen to turn in at least 420,000 old autos by year's end (normal: less than 100,000). Since each jalopy yields 1,500 lb. of steel scrap, 30 lb. of lead, 25 lb. of copper and 22 lb. of zinc, the junk-auto scheme could mean a fat addition to U.S. metal supplies...
...days of collecting in the College scrap drive have so far netted a medium amount of material, and much amusement as puzzled inmates of the Houses, Dudley, and Wigglesworth delved into the musty interiors of their closets for long-forgotten and discarded junk...
Today and tomorrow the familiar cry of the junk man calling for "Any Old Clothes?" will be taken over by the War Service Committee. A scrap drive is being conducted to empty Harvard rooms of all the old clothes, metal, and rubber that can possibly be salvaged. The money from the sale of scrap will go to PBH and the USO, while the records and musical instruments collected will be sent directly to the navy and the merchant marine...
...records can be made. The need for scrap rubber and metal is too well-known to require comment. Here is something which you can do for the war effort which takes no money. It doesn't even take any time. It will merely clear your room of excess junk and old cloth that is really needed somewhere else...
...Junk, old tools and scrap dropped down the hole is an oldfashioned, strictly improvised method. Fishing out broken equipment is one of the mudcats' arts-a timetaker, but not too difficult...