Iron County Record | 1947-01-09 | Page 3 | Varied Surplus Items Test WAA Ingenuity

Varied Surplus Items Test WAA Ingenuity I MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. - Appar-cntly Appar-cntly there's no limit to the surplus material which War Assets admin-istration admin-istration Is called on to handle. First there was an island, then a model dairy farm complete with herd on the west coast. Later WAA found itself saddled with surplus horses in the Midwest and left-ovrr panties and brassieres In the South. Now the New Orleans office reports re-ports it has In safekeeping 09 black diamonds and a quantity of pure silver. The diamonds they're not the kind you'd give your best girl aten't for sale, however. Used in precision machinery, they're still clast-rd as strategic material. Uu; WAA Is selling the silver 36,000 bars of it which was recovered recov-ered rom a recently demolished magnesium plant operated at Luke Charles. La., as a detente industry durinj the war.