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Last July, when bustle-bottomed Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia waddled into the aluminum drive as head of OCD, rangy Bob McConnell of OPM's conservation division already had a plan. It called for collection of the scrap by local committees, its sale to junk dealers who would sell it to the smelters. But the Little Flower did not trust junk dealers. Too many already were bootlegging aluminum-utensil scrap for as high as 40? a pound (Leon Henderson's ceiling...
...shipped 8.222,259 tons of scrap to Japan from 1936 to 1940 (when exports were finally prohibited in October). That scrap is gone forever. Another is the fact that railroads are patching up more old freight cars (ordinarily a big source of scrap), are using many a junk-worthy car for storage of coal. But the chief reason is that the nation's steel mills, breaking one production record after another, are now using scrap at the rate of at least 30,000,000 tons a year, and scrapmen are gathering only 24,000,000 tons a year...
...raise and I never knowed nothing about it till this morning and they done it yestiddy. Ever'body else on the job knowed it but me." So the radio dealers got out their oldest sets, the second-hand-car dealers got out their oldest junk. All jacked up the prices...
...brings steel production down, it will probably be a shortage of pig iron and scrap. Pig was close to formal priorities last week, with defense already taking almost all its output. Scrap is short partly because it is under badly adjusted price controls, without sufficient price-incentive to hinterland junk dealers...
...Ichang neared, the bag of rice was shifted again to a duck-bottomed little junk. Five miles and one river bend above Ichang (the high-water mark of Japanese penetration) the junk ran onto the bank, and the bag of rice was loaded on a coolie's back. The coolie, who carried the rice up a wire-tangled gully toward Divisional H.Q., could hear the boom of artillery. But it was not Chinese artillery...