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After the war the battered sub was moved to Portsmouth Navy Yard to be reduced to scrap, but the Korean war postponed that fate. Last year a group of citizens began a campaign to bring the U-boat to Chicago, Dan Gallery's home town. The Navy was agreeable, and on June 26 Junior was welcomed to Chicago. This week, if weather and Lake Michigan permit, Junior will be hauled ashore in a momentous engineering operation and lugged across South Lake Shore Drive (traffic will be halted for twelve hours) to her final berth at the museum...
...TIME [July 19] really sure that the U.S.S. Oregon is among the lovable old fighting ships Congress will preserve? Were there not pictures during the war of the Oregon being towed off for scrap as a great gesture of sacrifice...
...Only after the Proletariat has disarmed the Bourgeoisie will it be able, without destroying its world historical mission, to throw all armaments on the scrap heap...
...Hungary, factory workers noticed that scrap metal delivered to them contained fragments of church bells...
...first to weigh the growth of individual amoebas, but he is not tending his microscopic livestock as a mere stunt. He has already discovered something new: that amoebas generally grow for about 20 hours. Then for the next four hours before they divide, their weight does not increase. This scrap of information, gathered so laboriously, is considered important in the study of cellular growth, including the growth of cancer cells in the human body...