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Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyards. Tons of scrap at the auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company, Colmar Manor, Maryland were withheld from the war effort. Donovan, the owner, refused to sell at established junk prices. The material has since been requisitioned by the U.S. government
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Credit lineSalvage. Requisitioning auto graveyards. Tons of scrap at the auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company, Colmar Manor, Maryland were withheld from the war effort. Donovan, the owner, refused to sell a. 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information, Freeman, Albert. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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