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...Northern Ireland. Australia, Iceland, Trinidad, Egypt, Midway or Brooklyn Navy Yard had better send things that are wanted. Last week, just in time for givers, the Department Store Economist published the results of a poll in which 1,000 servicemen rated 51 potential gifts as "swell," "fair" or "junk...
When Grandma reads that 25% of the soldiers and 31% of the sailors think mufflers are junk, she'll think twice before casting on the stitches. The case for sleeveless sweaters is about as bad. She would do better to have her picture (and pictures of friends and family) taken and send them along. She could send a pocketknife or, better still, a pocket Bible. Over 49% of the soldiers and 58% of the sailors rated Bibles swell, would rather have the whole thing than just the New Testament...
...more steam behind its junk-your-jalopy campaign, in New York and New Jersey asked auto dealers and junkmen to turn in at least 420,000 old autos by year's end (normal: less than 100,000). Since each jalopy yields 1,500 lb. of steel scrap, 30 lb. of lead, 25 lb. of copper and 22 lb. of zinc, the junk-auto scheme could mean a fat addition to U.S. metal supplies...
...days of collecting in the College scrap drive have so far netted a medium amount of material, and much amusement as puzzled inmates of the Houses, Dudley, and Wigglesworth delved into the musty interiors of their closets for long-forgotten and discarded junk...
...records can be made. The need for scrap rubber and metal is too well-known to require comment. Here is something which you can do for the war effort which takes no money. It doesn't even take any time. It will merely clear your room of excess junk and old cloth that is really needed somewhere else...