Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born in 1905 in Kishinev in the Balkans, the son of Isaac and Zelta Haia, who were killed later that year in a pogrom. Aliases: Juanesky, Jouanneau, Joinov, Innovici, Joinou, Joseph Levy. Employment: ragpicker, scrap metal dealer, entrepreneur, double agent. Has been a citizen of Rumania and the Soviet Union, but now claims to be a stateless person. Wanted for swindling, nonpayment of taxes, contempt of court, illegal exit. Physical description: short, pudgy, grey-haired, looks vaguely like Alfred Hitchcock...
Mile-Long Queues. In 1927 Joseph Joanovici emerged from the obscurity of the Balkans to settle down in the Parisian suburb of Clichy. In twelve years he progressed from a ragpicker's cart to become a millionaire and one of France's top scrap metal dealers. At the outbreak of World War II, 34-year-old Joanovici tried to enlist in the French army. Turned down because he was still a Rumanian national, he sent his personal check for $3,000 to War Minister Edouard Daladier to help the war effort...
...uniform without ribbons, in the fashion of generals who have come to political power, President Chiang Kaishek, 71, the man who has guided the Republic of China's destinies for some 30 years, smiled broadly and spoke confidently of the years ahead. He scarcely glanced at a small scrap of paper holding his brief notes, as he addressed the 1,700 members of Nationalist China's Mainland Recovery Planning Board. He stood straight without leaning on the speaker's stand, occasionally sipped from a glass of boiled water...
...they detect that alarming rustle of inattention among spectators. "What I like about R. & H.," says General Stage Manager Jimmy Hammerstein, Oscar's No. 2 son, "is that they're conditioned to what works. If it works, they keep it in; if it doesn't, they scrap it. They listen with real objective ears...
...FRANCE, the 32-year-old liner that carried almost 700,000 passengers and soldiers across the Atlantic and other oceans, will be sold for scrap. French Line said the 45,330-ton ship had grown too aged and costly to operate...