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...helped Japan before this war by furnishing scrap iron and oil and, also, Germany by supplying raw cotton, copper and oil from our surpluses. We are now helping the entire civilized world through lend-lease. We have just celebrated "I Am an American Day." Isn't it about time we exercised a bit of intelligent self-interest in America? William H. Cliff...
...Omaha World-Herald, for public service (a scrap-collecting campaign...
...program re-enacted the Coast Guard cutter Campbell's 12-hour scrap with six U-boats in the North Atlantic. Of the Campbell's attack on the sixth submarine, the eyewitness account said...
...tons (on a pig-iron basis) must be stored up to carry steel mills through the next big freeze. That means not much more than 50,000,000 tons of pig for this year on a net basis. Added to this, 1943 's 41,500,000-ton scrap goal (half from mill waste, half purchased) is just barely enough to turn out the hoped-for 92,000,000 tons of steel ingots...
Meaning of the mathematics: short of a miracle, the U.S. this year will either dig up more scrap at home or produce less steel...