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...Vandalia, Ill., a missing steel bridge over the Kaskaskia River was found in a junkyard, whither it had been carted after dismantling by a dealer who said he bought it from a nearby farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Convention | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...vanned to meets. The actual ''marching" time was three days; on foot it would have taken six days. The horses rode eight to a trailer, standing sidewise with hay to munch in their traveling stalls which soldiers had built for them out of the Fort Bliss junkyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Horses on Wheels | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

Junk In Chicago, R. F. Keeler. poet, and A. F. Meserve, bedtime story writer, parked their car in what looked like a deserted parking place, was in fact a junkyard, returned to find four junkyard employes busily wrecking their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...Kitchen as it used to be? Sailors Snug Harbor, where a thousand old seamen find refuge and a little security after many storms; the Bowery Mission; the cheap, grudgingly-charitable men's hotel that Mr. Dreiser calls the "wayplace of the fallen;" old Samuel Clampitt's junkyard on 135th Street by the Harlem River, with its stuttering hunched proprietor who kept savage Great Danes in his yard-Mr. Dreiser can take you to them all and many other singular nooks beside. A guide who has had extraordinary opportunities for observing every changing aspect of a great and diverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Color of a City* | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

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