Word: second-hand
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There are no longer any English cycles available, and the supply of second-hand machines is being exhausted much faster than it can be replenished. Although the store has plenty of parts for broken bicycles, the tire situation is bad. There is still a large supply of tires on hand, but they are mostly in odd sizes not required by customers...
...Lackawanna, N.Y. (for Bethlehem), at Braddock, Pa. (for U.S.), at Pueblo, Colo, (for Colorado Fuel & Iron), two at Indiana Harbor (for Inland). At Provo, Utah (or perhaps at Pittsburg, Calif.) U.S. Steel's Columbia works is due to get three more blast furnaces, to be shipped second-hand from eastern mills where they were not in use, would have to be torn down for rebuilding anyway...
...remain unaltered except that any kind of grey trousers may be worn with tails or jackets. In addition, new boys may continue to wear at Eton the overcoat, shoes, grey flannel trousers, football boots and fives clothes which they already possess. The Eton tailors have a large quantity of second-hand tail coats, jackets, waistcoats and trousers which can be purchased without [ration] coupons at small cost. The use of these will help to conserve existing supplies of cloth and clothes...
...Madden might still have been a stumblebum had he not won 200 "clams" shooting craps one night in a waterfront dive. Determined "to quit being a uncouth bum," he bought a case of whiskey and a second-hand cash register, opened a speakeasy in Manhattan's famed Fifties. One night, after some of his customers had got into a skull-cracking brawl that brought the cops swarming in. Barkeep Madden, plenty irate, took his pencil from behind his ear. poured out a piece of his mind, pasted it on the mirror behind his bar: "Just for your information...
Unlikely to get much help from overworked U. S. shipbuilders, the British have done a little better in the market for second-hand ships. Since the war began, England and Canada have bought or arranged to buy 168 old vessels totaling 627,600 tons (deadweight) from U. S. owners (including 36 vessels from World War I's laid-up fleet). Deals are under way now for 45 more, and others may follow. Since almost any seagoing vessel is adequate for use in convoys, which travel slowly, Britain is better off buying old ships at low prices than new ones...