Show empty tubes a U S tin mine AI victory I 1 al mrs madge lewis ex saleslady above tests old tooth paste anc other tubes for metal content at right are some of thi the millions of old tooth paste rag ing cream and other metal tubes tuba ece ived at the reclamation plant plan of if the tin salvage institute by exchanging an old tube for a new tube we are helping to win the war through a salvage program devised by the government a plant for i reclaiming tin from esquee squeezed zed out tubes is now recovering several tons of pure tin daily millions of empty tubes which once contained tooth paste shaving cream ointments shoe polish etc go through the furnaces of the salvage institute at newark N J a nonprofit non profit organization operating under the metals reserve company of the reconstruction finance corporation recovery of tin from metal tubes begins at drug and other stores under the tube for a tube exchange plan as shown in picture at top va X rw A A W W i 14 N A W 7 three housewives with husbands in the service sort empty metal tubes that will be melted down these workers separate tin and lead tubes from containers made of other metals i pouring molten tin into molds juring during the first nine months of I 1 I 1 he I 1 e tube for tube plan pounds of tin were recovered for use by war industries A joseph schott e is tending a rree el in furnace af 01 1 z fa 7 |