GUTTERSON REASSURES PUBLIC THAT SCRAP RUBBER IS MOVING
Vermont salvage committees report a strong scrap drive across Morrisville St Johnsbury and Hartford with tens of thousands of pounds of metals rubber and fabrics collected. Morrisville drives net 228000 pounds scrap metals 9340 pounds raga 5600 pounds rubber 3500 pounds lead 2100 pounds tin. Gutterson notes rubber shipments reaching 200 carloads daily totaling about 4000 tons. Public urged to keep collecting usable rubber and avoid stockpiles until transport and processing catch up.
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Montpelier
Morrisville
St. Johnsbury
Hartford
Vermont
Warren G. Fancher
Morrisville Salvage
Ashington
Herbert L. Gutterson
WPB
Conservation Division
Gutterson
Victory
Disney Deer Are Crafted for Scrap Weighty Front Yard Symbols
Two iron deer once in Walt Disney’s front yard are ordered for scrap by WPB Conservation Division director Lessing J. Rosenwald. The salvage team will pick up the deer, totaling about a ton, to supply scrap quotas for two 75 mm howitzers or eight 100 pound bombs.
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Los Angeles
Walt Disney
Donald Duck
Mickey Mouse
Lessing
J. Rosenwald
WPB Conservation Division
Rosenwald
Pappy Diehl Scrapper Rigs Bull and Trailer for Scrap
Hendry County farmer J W Pappy Diehl with four sons in the Army rigged a homemade trailer hitched to a bull to gather 590 pounds of scrap rubber from highways and premises. He hauls scrap to a depot while neighbors’ children collect small lots. Each ton of iron scrap salvaged saves two tons of iron ore, a vital national resource.
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Diehl
Hendry County
J. W
Nelson Outlines Steps From Lots to Furnaces
Washington says the steel industry has received over 400000 tons of scrap metal monthly for four months. War Production Chief Donald M Nelson explains auto graveyards salvage parts before sending metals to furnaces, stressing time, process steps, and the junkman role to keep metals flowing for the war effort.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Junkman
War Production Board
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Naugatuck, Conc
Naugatuck Chemical Plant
U.S. Rubber Company
Scouts
Kiwanis
St, Johnsbury
Boy Scouts
Kiwanis Fund
Morris H. Cone
Petroleum Industry
War Council
Disney
Hirohito
Jersey City
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company
Willisan Hulsizer
Edward Otacka
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