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...Taft and Wilson entertained bigwigs on board. In 1929 President Hoover decided she was too costly; she was decommissioned and unsuccessfully offered for sale six separate times. In 1931 she caught fire and sank at her berth in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Then the Mayflower was put up for scrap, sold to a Chicago bidder for a dismal $16,105. The Chicago firm resold her to a Wilmington, N. C. company, which in turn resold the hulk to the War Department two years...
...Slow Scrap. After the choice pieces were culled, the remaining litter of battle was trucked to dumps. Flame-twisted tank fragments, broken rifles, smashed helmets are worthless except as scrap for the steel furnaces of U.S. and Britain. Most of this junk of battle may stay where it is in the scrap piles of Tunisia: few home-bound ships can spare the extra days to load...
...Plates to Wing Ribs. Two years ago Billy began brooding over two wasteful facts about aluminum production: 1) about 20% of his sheet was regularly rejected because of minor blemishes that, when cropped, left the sheet less than standard size; 2) at least 30% of the approved sheet became scrap when parts were cut out of it at an aircraft factory. Then as much as nine months (plus hundreds of scarce freight cars) are needed to get the scrap back to an aluminum mill, remelted, rerolled and ready to be cut up again...
Billy figured that he could mass-produce aircraft parts out of his odd-sized reject sheets by fitting them around the blemishes as a careful dressmaker fits a pattern to precious fabric. He also saw how to eliminate most of the usual waste and delay on scrap aluminum: his parts factory would be right next door to his ingot mill, where the scrap could be remelted and poured right back into more production...
...Navy is hopeful that her old-fashioned reciprocating engines have been fairly well preserved by the thick, overall film of oil. The Navy has not yet decided what it will do with the ship when she can plow the waves again. The Arizona is being cut up for scrap. Her turret mechanism, main and secondary batteries will be used elsewhere. Even the old Utah may yet deal a blow for revenge : some of her ammunition has been recovered, and her sister ships may fire it at the infamous...