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IN 1925, Ford Motor Co. bought 199 World War I-era ships that the company dismantled to reuse for ore and scrap metals over the next few years. The unusual purchase, author Ford Bryan said, made the company the world's largest junk collector for a time. Ford bought the ships mainly because he hated waste, but the whole process probably saved no money.

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