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Salvage War Relics and Rails Drive Across Nation
New York reports a war salvage drive with a Brooklyn Department of Purchase yard listing a combat relic ready for sale. A hydraulic rail-puller from New Haven aims to ease scrap metal removal with minimal pavement damage. In Pittboro an 1881 boiler, long used on a farm wagon for threshing and ginning, is turned over to WPA salvage officials as part of mobilization.
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New York
N. Y
Brooklyn
Department of Purchase
War Department
Lower Manhattan
New Haven
Conn
Pittsboro
N. C
Donald Nelson
R. E. Harris
Harri
Morris
WPA