Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...point of 96,441 in 1948 under Editor Henry Wallace, the N.R. has slumped to 37,000; the current issue carries only three ads and a column of classifieds. In 1942, Antiques had only 8,043 readers. But the wartime shortage of household furnishings caused a boom in the secondhand market, and Antiques boomed with it, now has 29,921 readers...
...bought a derrick, got an ancient, 3,000-ft. East Texas drilling rig and a leaking secondhand boiler and boldly set out to sink a 6,000-ft. hole in Hardin County. He drafted his father as a tool pusher, his younger brother William as a laborer. It was agonizing toil. Sand ruined the rubber rings in his pumps every half hour; each time, he dismantled the mechanism and installed new ones. The "coffee pot" rig broke down endlessly. He says: "We might as well have been drilling with a high-heeled boot." It took six months to sink...