Word: junkyard
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...cars, the most notable rolling relics are colectivos, taxibuses plying regular routes from Lima's working-class slums to market. Driver Andrés Barreto says he was lucky to have bought his six-cylinder 1929 Packard Diplomat. "I just happened to be in the Tacora junkyard when a fellow drove up in this car. I tell you I got a bargain. That was eleven years ago, and this car makes at least $7.25 a day for me. I carry as many as twelve passengers and bags of potatoes, green corn, fish, small pigs and goats, live chickens. Sometimes...
...Soby (who served on the selection committee ): "I think no fair-minded person can look at the present show and not realize that a spark has ignited our younger sculptors, whether they carve or cast their works, weld them or convert into estimable jewels the wry tiaras of the junkyard...
...half-dollars he saved grew steadily, and for good reason. Fraiman lived like a pauper. His home was surrounded by his junkyard near Hatboro, Pa., 15 miles north of Philadelphia. He used an outhouse, burned wood in his stove, ate out of cans. He paid a marriage broker only $15 of the promised $50 fee for finding him a wife, on the theory that it might not work out. It didn't, not after she was extravagant enough on one occasion to squander $1 for a taxi ride home...
...halfway across town by 4 p.m. when Billy Hand the Hatter put up $3 a week for him to deliver hats. "Any young man who would do what you have done today." said Billy, ''deserves a job." On the Way. When his father started up a junkyard, young Bernie lugged scrap metal, stowed away nickels from his own pay for his account in the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank until, at 19, he had $1,200 to start his own business...
...those students who spent numerous and enjoyable hours last year listening to Barn Howl and Junkyard Jamboree, WHRB's ban on hillbilly music is indeed unpardonable...