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Show More U. S. Surplus Goods Offered Steel scissors, pus1, brooms, hunting knives and clay pigeons are some of the vast variety of surplus items now being sold throughout the country by the Office of Surplus Property, Consumer Con-sumer Goods division, Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance Corporation. The scissors have four-inch forged steel blades with round- ea points and are gun-metal in finish. It is estimated that ;782,9C6 pairs Will find their way into sewing baskets. The push brooms come in an assortment of types of fiber and approximately 185,000 are being offered to the trade. Sportsmen will appreciate the 258,000 hunting knives and the 22 million clay p,ons Included In-cluded in the sale. The knives have six-inch blades and are made of fine forged steel with leather handles and come complete com-plete with leather sheaths. All but the clay pigeons are being sold to dealers through the Regional Offices maintained by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in eleven cities-All cities-All the items had previously been offered to eovovnment priority claimants and to vets. |
