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As commodities markets churn, scrap metal profits pile up

At Mid-City Scrap Iron & Salvage in Westport, Manny Lewis worked a crane over a metal pile.
By Ross Kerber
Globe Staff / April 21, 2006

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WESTPORT -- Bring out your junk. Scrap dealers across New England have doubled the prices they pay for some metal because of rising world commodities markets. As a result, old bedframes, candlesticks, pipes, silverware, tools, hot water heaters, and wheelbarrows are being emptied out of basements and sold to dealers. (Full article: 1159 words)

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