Word: junks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lolled at anchor in the Willamette River in downtown Portland last week the sunbeams wriggled through her superstructure, flicked over the letters OREGON. Once she was the bravest battleship in the U.S. Fleet, the heroine and toast of the whole U.S. Now Washington had consigned her to the junk heap, where her 10,300 tons of steel, copper and brass could be turned into fighting metals for World...
...World War I training ship, escorted transports for General William Sidney Graves's Siberian expedition in 1918. Decommissioned after World War I, she was supposed to become a Portland public monument (like the Constitution in Boston). But now her metal is too precious: she must die in a junk yard...
Many mountings of homemade telescopes are pieced together from the gleanings of junk yards. Clyde Tombaugh, the amateur who discovered the planet Pluto, made a telescope mount from an old cream separator. Nevertheless, most homemade telescopes look pretty good; however much junk they contain, they must be precision instruments. Several, in fact, are now in use at professional observatories...
...long last have to let the profit motive help solve the steel shortage. For while OPA's price ceilings are enough to bring in more ordinary scrap than ever before, they are not high enough to give the most essential scrap collector of all, the small junk dealers, an adequate incentive for abnormal effort. They are not even high enough, in fact, to keep a lot of small junkmen in business...
...course, all of the figures aren't in yet. Many filling stations have not turned in any of their rubber, and junk dealers have not made reports on their collections. Nevertheless, the western states have shown what can be done in this drive. California, Montana, and Nevada are in the vanguard in the west. Nevada, with a population almost exactly the size of Cambridge, has collected 653 tons, or 11.87 pounds per capita. There may have been a few more broken-down Model T's in Nevada, but otherwise there is no real reason why Cambridge shouldn't rustle...