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...State of New Jersey had no reason to feel proud of its solution of the murder of aged William Homer, Trenton junkman. For five days in February 1948, the Trenton police turned the heat on six young Negro suspects, finally.got all but one to sign confessions that they were parties to robbing old man Horner in his shop, and to beating him to death with a pop bottle...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt and Newport neighbors scored a smashing victory over a junkman. For some 30 years he had been heaping his own yard with indelicate odds & ends, and he lived just a tin-can's throw from the very best people. So Mrs. Peyton J. Van Rensselaer got up a petition; Mrs. Vanderbilt and some of the other best people signed it. The junkman's yard was a fire hazard, said they. That did it. The junkman tidied up. Now it was just like the good days of 1929. That was the other time he tidied...
Cleanup. In Bayport, N.Y., Burton J. Downer cleaned out his attic, left some old clothes on the doorstep for the junkman, days later got them back from the laundry with a $9.54 cleaning bill...
These tough words came last week from WPB's Industrial Conservation chief, shy philanthropic Lessing Rosenwald, as he announced a new all-out drive for industry's "dormant scrap." Donald Nelson backed up his chief junkman in even tougher talk: "The one thing we must not do," he said, "is to pack machinery and equipment away permanently or in grease against the end of the war." Every existing piece of machinery must be used now for war production, for replacement parts for other machines, or for scrap...
...psychology of the junkman has been ignored from the beginning of the war program. The scrappie's prices have long been frozen both horizontally and vertically; he is therefore going out and getting a defense job. There is scrap lying around everywhere, uncollected and unprocessed, and at the same time the only organization that can possibly turn in a satisfactory performance is slowly disintegrating. Only a recognition of the profit motive, such as perhaps a $2 rise in the scrap ceiling and more freedom to manipulate different classifications at will under the ceiling can possibly alter this unfavorable trend...