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...long last have to let the profit motive help solve the steel shortage. For while OPA's price ceilings are enough to bring in more ordinary scrap than ever before, they are not high enough to give the most essential scrap collector of all, the small junk dealers, an adequate incentive for abnormal effort. They are not even high enough, in fact, to keep a lot of small junkmen in business...
...course, all of the figures aren't in yet. Many filling stations have not turned in any of their rubber, and junk dealers have not made reports on their collections. Nevertheless, the western states have shown what can be done in this drive. California, Montana, and Nevada are in the vanguard in the west. Nevada, with a population almost exactly the size of Cambridge, has collected 653 tons, or 11.87 pounds per capita. There may have been a few more broken-down Model T's in Nevada, but otherwise there is no real reason why Cambridge shouldn't rustle...
Bicycles. At a New York Police Department auction sale, 1,500 people tried to buy 88 secondhand bicycles, paid as high as $37 apiece for them. But 155 cars had no buyers, were sold for junk...
Used-car sales are just as bad-maybe worse. Prices are 25% to 33% below last year. At a New York City Police Department "lost-strayed-or-stolen" auction, 1,500 bidders bypassed 155 second-hand cars (except as junk), bid up to $37 for second-hand bicycles. In the Carolinas, new and used-car sales were off 50%; in Florida, many a disgusted dealer got ready to quit; in Maine, there were more sellers than buyers. Even in the gasoline-rich West and Midwest, rumors of rationing slowed sales down...
Stop Salvage. Zealous patriots, spurred on by Government salvage campaigns, have buried paper mills and junk collectors in wastepaper. Lack of further storage space made Lessing Rosenwald, chief WPB junkman, cry "uncle" last week. He begged collectors to hold their paper...