Word: junks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burma. Below them, on the Jap-held airdrome at Moulmein, 25 or more enemy planes were lined up in tempting rows. The two "Flying Tigers" clawed the field with incendiary bullets, and Jernstedt dropped small fire bombs which he had packed into his flare release. The field was a junk heap of burning, exploding Jap planes when Jernstedt and Reed gunned their P-405 away, over the Salween River...
...helped in hospitals, escaped from scorched-out Changsha in a junk. Later, with some coolies, he walked a friend's three Chinese children cross-country, trying to reach the nearest train. The retreating Chinese destroyed railway lines more quickly than Schoyer and the children could reach them, but they finally got to safety. In Manhattan Schoyer now runs Spotlight on Asia, a radio program, for the Institute of Pacific Relations. He wants to get back to China...
There will be a new drive to win the Battle of Junk, and this one means business. WPB Conservator Lessing Rosenwald had a new general to plan...
...thousands will take on the cities. Meanwhile, Rosenwald's Auto Graveyard Section is after 3,000,000-3,750,000 tons of jalopy. If Matt Fox's plan turns up the 4,000,000-6,000,000 tons of scrap that he hopes for, the Battle of Junk will...
...auctioneer last week put an almost new 1941 model on the block, without a word caressed its big, wonderfully thick tires. It brought $1,600-$100 over the new-car price. Older models formerly selling for 50-$100 are now stripped of their tires (and sometimes upholstery), sold as junk...