Vice President Henry A. Wallace's Economic Defense Board completed a sleuthing job last week, came up with a rich haul of loot. In the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad yards in Hoboken, N.J., the board's investigators found the following war supplies, stranded in warehouses and freight cars ever since the consignees had been cut off by Hitler's conquests.
> Marked for shipment to France: 473,510 lb. of aluminum plate and rods; 215,000 lb. of steel.
> For Holland: 2,712,638 lb. of iron & steel; 20 automobiles.
> For Switzerland: 1,491,000 lb. of steel plate;...
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