Word: secondhand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
National Youth Administration has more than 400,000 youngsters enrolled in its 4,300 workshops, sends them to jobs at the rate of about 25,000 a month. In their own shops, housed in deserted factories and equipped with secondhand machinery, NYA enrollees make army cots, tool chests, torpedo parts. Last year they built six airports, improved 14. A big NYA expansion is slated next year; its budget will...
...Furthermore, Navy and Army contracts hold the prime contractor responsible for quality and delivery dates, and in some cases prohibit subcontracting. In case of a mishap in subcontracting, DCS can take no responsibility. Moreover, many potential subcontractors are as fiercely independent as they are small, hate to take orders secondhand...
...Dorothy Christie parlayed a $25 secondhand evening wrap into a $22,500 fighter plane is one of the breeziest inspirations of World War II. The wrap, which, along with other finery and furbelows, Mrs. Christie had forsworn for the war's duration, was sold to an American friend last October. The $25 she got went to print cards that said: "Is your name Dorothy? If so, rally around and help buy a Spitfire for Britain."* The cards, in turn, went to every Dorothy in the Dominion that she and her friends could think...
...Beginning. As one of seven children of a Spokane, Wash, accountant, Bing's earliest leanings were towards having fun. Pleasant and easygoing, he liked to swim at Mission Park on hot days or whack around the Downriver golf course with his rusty, secondhand clubs. His vague goal was the law, which he leisurely studied at nearby Gonzaga University...
...Jellifies had little money, used in genuity instead. When famed Negro Actor Charles Gilpin gave them $50 to start a Negro theatre, they launched the Gilpin Players in a converted poolroom. They made spotlights of tin cans, tapestries of burlap, seats of secondhand pews. They started other groups painting, etching, dancing, singing, composing, band-playing, glazing pottery. One day a 14-year-old boy named Zell Ingram, having learned puppet-making in Karamu House, decided to see the world. He bought an old Ford, converted its rumble seat into a stage, paid his way to Manhattan and back by giving...