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Marveling that nobody had thought to look for these supplies before, EDB took immediate steps to put them to work. One mystery: who had been paying the storage and demurrage charges on them for over a year? Knowing full well that Germany would have been glad to pay to keep the supplies idle, EDB aimed to find the answer in a hurry. It also sent its agents to look for more materials in the freight yards of New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco...
...businessmen pressed by shortages, EDB's Hoboken windfall had a hopeful note. If a quick survey of one railroad yard could turn up several million pounds of idle materials, the Office of Production Management's still uncompleted overall inventory survey might turn up billions...