Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of Iran's Azerbaijan province, which under Soviet guidance has proclaimed itself independent of Teheran, were admonished last week on how a free people should dress. A new paper called Azerbaijan, published in Tabriz, denounced the wearing of secondhand clothes sent from...
...colleagues at home for resale. But Azerbaijan, while praising Franklin Roosevelt and his Lend-Lease, saw, under Truman, an evil policy shift for a sinister motive. The new U.S. line, said Azerbaijan, was "restriction of world trade to American monopoly, thus giving the Americans an opportunity to sell their secondhand clothes...
Laurels, Old & New. It took German scientists twelve years to develop the V2, and U.S. experts nearly a year to learn how to operate it, with the aid of German technicians working in "voluntary protective custody." But the Army does not intend to rest on its secondhand laurels. Soon it will start work on bigger, longer-range rockets designed to carry a worthwhile atomic payload...
Back of the Barn. The public swiftly caught on to every unethical trick. The man who wanted a new automobile in a hurry, but had no car to trade in, knew that some dealer would sell him a secondhand car at $800 and then take it back in trade at $400. The OPA was virtually helpless against the racket in autos. It caught some little fish (some of them several times), but snagged few really big ones...
...from Hendy's beginnings as a mining machinery company, 90 years ago. In 1940, Hendy had only 60 employes, was so shaky that Moore and the Six Companies combine bought the whole outfit for $400,000, intending to turn a quick profit by selling its machinery on the secondhand market...