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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...
...started it all, turned into an embarrassing surplus almost as soon as the scrap-saving drive got under way. Many board mills began to refuse to take any more scrap; others would take it only at prices well under OPA's ceiling. By last week, WPB Conservationist Lessing Rosenwald's division was reduced to writing shamefaced letters to State salvage chairmen calling off wastepaper collections except for areas where paperboard mills were willing to take it. The mills themselves were lazing along at 82% of capacity in the third week in May, v. an average...
There will be a new drive to win the Battle of Junk, and this one means business. WPB Conservator Lessing Rosenwald had a new general to plan...
...auto grave yards, 2) the nation's 6,500,000 farms, where an estimated one to two and a half million-ton hoard of old machinery lies mouldering. To round up the farm scrap, he decided that paid collectors were necessary. The first thousand collectors announced by Rosenwald last week: WPA workers, with WPA trucks, to go from farm to farm collecting scrap (they will ask for it as a gift, pay for it if need be). It will be auctioned to commercial dealers, who must promise to see that it flows into production channels. While they drive around...
When the farm-collection drive is well under way, other thousands will take on the cities. Meanwhile, Rosenwald's Auto Graveyard Section is after 3,000,000-3,750,000 tons of jalopy. If Matt Fox's plan turns up the 4,000,000-6,000,000 tons of scrap that he hopes for, the Battle of Junk will...