Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was just out of the University of Pennsylvania. To his $500 savings, his father, James, a textile jobber, added $5,000. With the money, they formed Airedale Worsted Mills, Inc. with Joe as president. They rented a loft in a Woonsocket (R.I.) mill, bought some secondhand machinery, hired two workers and started weaving worsted fabrics...
...cover its embarrassment, the Met offered a surprising explanation: Soprano Schleuter had been signed by the Met without being seen or heard-merely on secondhand recommendations, and the name she had made for herself in Germany's shabby postwar opera. It was a common practice, to pick singers that way, added...
...limping along at only 65% of capacity, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. said that "it looks as if it would be two years at least" before there was enough steel. Ford Motor Co. did more than grumble; it earmarked $18 million to build a blast furnace and buy a secondhand rolling mill to turn out steel itself...
Trash on High. Eisler denies that there is any such thing as a "history" of film music: "The person who around 1910 first conceived the repulsive idea of using the Bridal March from Lohengrin as an accompaniment is no more of a historical figure than any other secondhand dealer." Neither does he think that movie music is getting much better: "Progress has become perverted into calculating the audience's reactions, and the result is a combination of third-rate entertainment, maudlin sentimentality. ... It consists only in the fact that trash was taken out of its humble hiding place...
...despite their dulled protests, few U.S. citizens were pinched and most were living better, housing shortage and all, than in any other era. The national hunger for new automobiles was insatiable; in every city in the land people were paying secondhand dealers from $300 to $800 over list prices for cars which had been made "secondhand" by being driven around the block. Housewives kept on buying expensive cuts of meat. Baseball was having its biggest season...