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Show Varied Surplus Items Test VAA Ingenuity I MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. Apparently Appar-ently there's no limit to the surplus material which War Assets administration 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-over panties and brassieres In the South. Now the New Orleans office re-orUt re-orUt in safekeeping 99 black diamonds and a quantity of pure silver. The diamonds they're not the kind you'd give your best girl aren't for sale, however. Used in precision machinery, they're still classed as strategic material. But WAA is selling the silver 36,000 bars of it which was recovered recov-ered from a recently demolished magnesium plant operated at Lake Charles, La., as a defense industry during the war |
