Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other scarce commodity. Farmers come first, hospitals next. As usual, the ordinary householder comes last. To householders pestered by roaches and flies, a WPB official offered this advice: "Hit them with a fly swatter like your grandmother did. This is war!" Fly swatters, wheiher made of rubber or metal, will soon be scarce, too (TIME, April...
...trades can carry more than two months' stock on hand (if he lives in the Mountain or Pacific States, three months'). The order covered suppliers to the automotive, building, dairy, electrical, farm, foundry, hardware, plumbing, railroad, restaurant, textile mill and practically every other trade that uses any metal...
Within three months or less there will be no more new metal ash trays, no metal clothes trees or coat hangers or curtain rods, no metal doormats, hand mirrors, hat racks, picture frames or shoe trees, no more metal wastebaskets or clothes hampers or percolators, mixers, whippers and juicers. There will be no more metal, in short, for a WPB list of 76 classes of adjuncts to easy living...
...terms of war production-of his totalitarian orders.* "They make possible," said he, "the complete conversion of the men, materials and machine tools formerly devoted to these pursuits to war production." In fact, they make conversion to war work not merely "possible" but mandatory for all manufacturers who need metal and want to stay in business...
That was Monday. The ad was published as a full-page spread in newspapers throughout the country. On Saturday, out of an airplane stepped Henry E. Brunhoff, Cincinnati manufacturer of metal products, busy on war work. Swisher and Brunhoff put their heads together over blueprints of metal-stamping dies. Now they are at work...