IN WRONG PLACES
EXCESS OF PETROL & PAPER
(Rec. noon.) NEW YORK, June 10.
The Washington correspondent of the "New York Post" states that surplus stocks of gasoline in the mid-west producing and refining areas are providing as. big a problem as the shortage of motor fuel in the; east coast region. Unable to ship fuel to" where it is badly needed,- :and with the local storage overtaxed, mid-west oil men are seriously considering plans to pump the excess gasoline back into the wells.
The president of the Metropolitan Waste Paper Dealers* Association said that waste paper salvage in New York is so successful that dealers who have paid fourteen dollars a ton for paper arc so overstocked that they are now clamouring at the city incinerators to pay 75 cents to have it burnt
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1942, Page 7
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134IN WRONG PLACES Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1942, Page 7
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