Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expensive Trade. Lap Sap Mei and Macao are an enticement to the thousands of desperately poor junk people in Hong Kong who are ready to risk their lives to earn a few hundred dollars running contraband. Under U.N. pressure, British authorities have stepped up their efforts to enforce the embargo...
Quick Switch. Dutch liquidated contracts on the money-losing plane, sold the prototype to a junk dealer for $1,500, and laid plans to build a trainer to compete for Air Corps contracts. He had nine weeks to do the job-and under NRA could not officially work his employees overtime. One night he entered the plant and found his employees shouting and singing at their jobs. They had checked out, had a few beers and come back to "have some fun"-against which there wasn't any law. The plane (BT-9) was completed on time, and North...
What happened to the Dupuis family? Reporters found them living nine miles away in a dingy, junk-piled hovel...
...along about last Christmas, Peter Akulonis' inner fiber began to fray and shrivel under the pressures and strains of life. At lunch he sat apart, alone and unhappy. When a friend bought a new car, he asked: "How can you afford that when I drive a pile of junk? All I do is work and go home. . . I'm not getting anything out of life...
Tipped off by an informer, West Berlin cops were waiting one night last week when a burglar broke into a junk dealer's home. They got more than an ordinary crook: once arrested, Kurt Knobloch began to talk, and what he said made the pinch, in the eyes of a top West Berlin police official, "the most important arrest made in West Berlin since...