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...twice-found that no priorities had been violated, no vital labor absorbed. Said Leon Henderson: "The people who are building the track are quite ingenious." Indeed they are. All Garden State's structural materials had been purchased before Pearl Harbor; 60% of the metal was secondhand, the second-hand "Lai-lies" (concrete-filled steel cylinders) used in place of steel columns are unsuitable for scrap; wood was substituted for metal wherever possible; a sprinkler system was rented from a Florida track. Instead of the 1,900 tons of steel originally planned, Boss Mori got along with...
...shocked protest against a new British sales tax of nearly 67% on musical instruments. "In my boyhood I had a chance of being qualified as an oboist," he recalled, "and I should have jumped at it if I could have obtained ?14, which was the price of a second-hand oboe seventy years ago. For want of that sum I was lost to woodwind forever and had to adopt a profession in which the equipment was 6 pennyworth of stationery...
...only chance anyone who wants a bicycle for convenience or pleasure has, is to buy one second-hand. The Exchange is perpetually out of used stock, and individual owners about the Yard, priding themselves on their luck, put up a stiff price...
Pasadena's Rose Bowl looked like a second-hand auto park. In the chill dawn, 140 battered cars and sagging trucks huddled, piled high with furniture, bundles, gardening tools. At 6:30 a.m. they chuffed and spluttered, wheeled into line, and started rolling. Led by a goggled policeman on a motorcycle, a jeep and three command cars full of newsmen, they headed for the dark, towering mountains to the east...
From innermost China the oil came, in bamboo-&-paper buckets, wooden tubs, in second-hand steel oil drums. After the eastern ports were lost, the oil moved down the Burma Road, under constant bombardment. The last consignments shoved off from Rangoon under a shower of bombs, shortly before the advancing Japanese captured the city in March- leaving the U.S. hereafter to fend for tung itself...