Word: junkyards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Raider Louis Wolfson, who parlayed a Jacksonville junkyard into a $240 million empire and attempted to gain control of giant Montgomery Ward, sounded a general retreat last week. He is getting out of Montgomery Ward and selling all his 59,000 shares (at an expected profit of about $750,000). Furthermore, he is thinking of selling the Highway Trailer Co., the Marion Power Shovel Co. and its subsidiary, the Osgood Co., all controlled by Merritt-Chapman & Scott, which Wolfson runs as chairman, president and chief stockholder (more than 157,000 out of 5,374,360 shares...