Word: secondhands
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...dinner party recently a peer's daughter triumphantly announced that she had persuaded her dressmaker to sell her a new suit without the required coupons. A politician's wife proudly reported buying a fur coat (18 coupons) with no coupons whatever (she contended the garment was secondhand because it had been worn by a mannequin...
...chromium-plated, .50-calibre aircraft machine gun, Britain-bound, was ceremoniously presented to U.S. Army and British officials last week by High Standard Manufacturing Co. in Hamden, Conn. It was the company's 10,000th gun, produced seven months ahead of schedule with salvaged secondhand machinery - an accomplishment Army Ordnance "didn't believe possible a year...
...case of automobiles, a buyer can trade in his old car, get credit for all or part of the down payment. The regulations apply to secondhand as well as new machines, include taxicabs as well as pleasure vehicles...
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...