Word: secondhands
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...always been intimately conscious of the big man in the seersucker suit, grinning around his up-tilted cigaret holder, mopping his brow with a heavy, mole-speckled hand. Now the nation saw him not at all. It could piece his doings together only through an occasional secondhand glimpse such as at Harry Hopkins' wedding last week...
Bicycles. At a New York Police Department auction sale, 1,500 people tried to buy 88 secondhand bicycles, paid as high as $37 apiece for them. But 155 cars had no buyers, were sold for junk...
...once but 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...
...most were the 8,000 women in Chicago's slums whom Dr. DeLee had delivered of babies during his 40-odd years of practice. In 1895, the poor young physician, son of Jewish immigrant parents, scraped together $500, collected a stove, table, chairs and linen, bought two secondhand beds, and started Chicago's first free maternity dispensary in a $12-a-month tenement flat...
...Manhattan's swank Abercrombie & Fitch is buying & selling secondhand English saddles, shotguns, field glasses, revolvers, because it can get no new ones...