Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipowners to break up a gang of salvage pirates among the Florida keys. Paulette Goddard is there, speakin' Southern and doin' her best to get a little honest salvage away from Raymond Massey, head of the highjackers and a rat, old-style. Romancing the pretty salvage wrecker around are Sea Captain John Wayne, who seems quite depressed, and Shipowner Ray Milland, who is anything but. He gets her. In the end, poor Paulette, surrounded by dead and dying salvagers, wails: "This is all my doin...
There is plenty of scrap in the U.S.-abandoned automobiles rusting in wrecker graveyards, broken plows rusting in farmers' barns, old bedsprings and buckets lying on dumps at the edge of every small town. The problem is how to sort the scrap, compress it for shipping, move it to market...