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...Paterson, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cooper left on a vacation. While they were gone, an unidentified woman broke into their house, put on a house dress, called a second-hand dealer, sold him for $25 furniture worth...
...Ethiopian home, Benito Mussolini was faced with grueling transport problems. Only means of carrying food, garrison troops and colonists from the Red Sea coast to Ethiopia's capital was by the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad, 494 mi. of rough, single-track, narrow-gauge roadbed over which crawled rattling, second-hand rolling stock to a terminus in French territory...
...Jalopy," "jaloppi" -or "jollopy" (Weseen's Dictionary of American Slang}-has for years been the name used by U. S. second-hand car dealers and taxi drivers for an exhausted automobile. Possible derivation: jalap, a purgative root...
...Independents retort that this dominance forces them to all sorts of evils like double-feature billing and Bank Nights. "Why do we have double features? Because the big boys wanted their theatres to use up the entire product of the studios so we'd have to take everything second-hand," explains Al Steffes bitterly. He admits that the independents had a share in building up Bank Night but asserts: "We were getting such rotten pictures that we had to do something to get people into the houses...
When the Denver Post, where he was next employed, discontinued its morning edition in 1928, Watson started back East in a second-hand flivver with his wife, then pregnant, and $25 capital. At Fremont, Neb. they ran out of gas and money, but got on to Chicago where Watson landed a job with the AP, which in time shifted him to its New York office. There his job, besides rewriting and editing, included important reporting assignments...