Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many other people who feel as I do ... we are saving our tin cans, our collapsible metal tubes, our rubber, our waste paper, our scrap metal. . . . We're doing easily with less sugar than our ration card will buy. . . . We're not hoarding anything...
...Printing plates made of a light strong plastic, to replace ten times their weight in metallic stereotypes and electrotypes, are announced by Theodore Moss, Inc. The master plate is still made of metal but any number of duplicate plates can be made by molding under pressure. The inked impression is sharp and accurate even for fine half-tones, but for direct printing the plastic plates do not have the endurance of metal plates...
...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...
Today and tomorrow the familiar cry of the junk man calling for "Any Old Clothes?" will be taken over by the War Service Committee. A scrap drive is being conducted to empty Harvard rooms of all the old clothes, metal, and rubber that can possibly be salvaged. The money from the sale of scrap will go to PBH and the USO, while the records and musical instruments collected will be sent directly to the navy and the merchant marine...
...drive has two primary objects--salvaging material for war production and the furthering of armed service morale. Old cloth can be used in industrial processing, while broken records are now the only source of shellac from which new 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...