Word: junks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bears such titles as Head as Still Life, Unity of Three Forms, Leda, looks to the uninitiated like miscellaneous plumbing that has survived a conflagration. But to those who know their abstract iron onions, these arthropodal trivets are as good as they come. For his material, he sometimes ransacks junk yards, picks over leftovers from the neighboring iron works. Of his neighbors the boilermakers, he says: "They are pretty swell to me, even though they don't know what it's all about...
...display went a 4th-Century Sasanian palace hall, the like of which does not exist even in its native Persia; a mandapam (pillared hall) from a Vishnu temple which Philadelphia Socialite Adeline Pepper Gibson spirited out of India by junk in 1912; a lofty Ming hall from Peking, "the finest single architectural unit ever to leave China"; a dozen other galleries. All 15 were crowded with a superb collection of Oriental art that ranged from Persian rugs to Japanese prints...
...Navies of both sides are the agencies for fighting out this war of convoy and blockade, not only of food supplies but of oil, war materials and metals. (Last week in London and Paris search parties were already on the prowl for junk and scrap.) Reviewing this war's first six months, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill was able to say last week: "Where do we stand on balance? . . . We lost 63,000 tons of warship or about half the losses in the first six months of the last war." Same time Mr. Churchill admitted, since...