Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original cost, a pool of books could be built up, for which the veteran would be charged under the GI authorization only enough more than the turn-in price to take care of overhead costs. Obviously if the government is doing the paying, no one is going to buy secondhand books if new ones are available, but until that time when enough books are on the market, such a turn-in system would do much to alleviate the critical shortage of the next eight months...
...Watters learned about jazz secondhand. When he was born in Santa Cruz, Calif, in 1911, Pianist Jelly Roll Morton was ragtiming the opera Martha up & down the Mississippi; Bunk Johnson was playing his cornet in Storyville's famous Eagle Band and teaching his eleven-year-old "boy Louis" (Armstrong) to blow his first blues. Bull-necked Lu Watters was less than 11 when he blew his first trumpet...
...wear such clothes, but also consider those who trade in them traitors who act against the interests of national industries. Everybody must try to use the homemade goods so that our nation can stand apart from the coming world crisis. We repeat that Azerbaijanis detest and despise the secondhand clothes of others...
...British car production in low gear and demand in high, many a London dealer was openly selling 1946 models at double the Government ceiling price. The prices were legal because Government ceilings apply only to new cars, and dealers found it easy to convert a new car into a secondhand one. As a Piccadilly salesman explained: "You only have to take a new car out and let the balmy summer breezes play over it a while and there it is- secondhand and wildly out of control...
...just pulled his new Sunbeam over to the curb to greet a friend when a dealer raced out of a nearby showroom and offered ?200 above list price for the car. The prize was worth the chase. A 1946 Armstrong worth ?991 new is worth ?1,850 ($7,640) secondhand, a ?352 Ford is worth ?710 ($2,932) once it has been used. So Britons are paying for 1) low production, 2) their export program which sends half their cars abroad for sale...