Word: second-hand
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Caches. In Chillicothe, Mo., a nervous second-hand dealer looked up the car he'd sold six days before, opened the trunk, pulled out $2,000, explained to the new owner: "That was my bank-I forgot." Near Chicago, Ralph Dean wiggled his big toe while taking a bus ride, felt far too comfortable, frantically remembered the four $20 bills he was saving; cops got his money back from the cobbler who had put new heels on Dean's shoes...
Inaugurated at the beginning of the term, the service is open to veterans and non-veterans alike, although it is run entirely by the University Chapter of the American Veterans Committee. It is designed to facilitate the buying and selling of second-hand texts by means of a card catalogue listing volumes offered for sale by students who no longer need them...
Stanley H. Lofchie '50, a member of the AVC's Students Affairs Committee and manager of the book directory, says that by the use of the service, both book hunters and book-sellers come out ahead of those who go to the local second-hand marts...
...Ford Motor Co.'s sales manager John R. Davis announced more bad news for the second-hand dealers: late this year Ford will start producing 1948 models that will show "the greatest change since the introduction of the Model A twenty years ago." And, he added, they would be cheaper than present models...
Acting to help both veteran and non-veteran students bypass commercial rates in the Square for the sale and purchase of second-hand textbooks, the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee yesterday opened a clearinghouse service at its office in Phillips Brooks House...