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Collecting Tin cans is a waste of time until we use hundreds of abandoned cars which will provide thousands of tons of scrap metal, according to Jack (...)
Collecting Tin cans is a waste of time until we use hundreds of abandoned cars which will provide thousands of tons of scrap metal, according to Jack (...)

Collecting Tin cans is a waste of time until we use hundreds of abandoned cars which will provide thousands of tons of scrap metal, according to Jack (...)

Date6/11/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Collecting Tin cans is a waste of time until we use hundreds of abandoned cars which will provide thousands of tons of scrap metal; according to Jack McGinnis; co-ordinator of IS 5; an ecology and environment foundation. Here he looks over some old cars and metal piled up at a waterfront scrap yard.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0010291F
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Sunday, hundreds of cars and thousands of persons came to the Dionne home
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Passport (GM) unveiled its Saturn line (upper right) of compact cars, which will appear in the fall
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Say ahhh? Mike Pearce peers into the interior of a De Lorean car through the stainless steel sports car's distinctive gull-wing doors. Pearce is leasi(...)
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