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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1943
Page
5
A wartime appeal urges households to save used cooking fats as glycerine vital for gunpowder. One tablespoon daily could aid defense, offsetting cuts after Japanese advances. Collect used fats, store in a can, and deliver to the meat dealer for processing.
During food rationing fat can collection estimates weigh containers to deduct. No.2 cans are preferred as they hold about a pound of fat. Common can weights include No.1 10 oz cans at 2.2 oz, No.2 20 oz at 3.6 oz, No.4 48–50 oz at 7.0 oz, and 31 tablespoonfuls equal one pound.
A compilation lists firms across industries including furniture, textiles, paper, cotton, lumber, oil, transportation, car works, Hosiery, and miscellaneous manufacturers such as Lewis and Holmes Marietta Paint, Marlowe Van Loan Corp, Marsh Furniture, Silver Knit Mills, and Southern Oil Transportation among others. The list names entities and the local business scene without additional context or events.
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