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...recently opened scrap drive gives every man a chance to do his share toward building arms and equipment for our fighting men. To keep an army of seven million men outfitted and supplied requires an all-out effort on the part of everyone, students not excepted. For those men not now in the armed forces, the contribution of a few ounces of scrap is the least they...
Every room in the University is a veritable storehouse of desperately needed rubber and scrap metal. That old tin wastebasket and the miniature rubber tire surrounding the ash-tray could certainly be put to better use in a jeep or Flying Fortress. Cloth scrap, especially silk, is also needed, and those old frayed shirts and ties will help. Since representatives have been appointed in every entry to take care of the donations, no great pains have to be taken to get rid of your scrap. If every student contributes just one pound of scrap, the country will be enriched...
Publisher Alvin Wiehle of the Washington Herald-Telegram writes with brutal candor. When a recent District of Columbia practice blackout flopped, Publisher Wiehle combed the District's hair with a sneering editorial headline: "A blackout? Nuts! A whiteout!" During the recent scrap drive he pressed his editorial trigger again: "The people must conserve, conserve, conserve, but the Government is free to waste what it pleases. Attached to the wall of the public rest station at Dupont Circle are two iron trellises ... at least 40 lb. of good scrap. Why isn't something done?" He also runs pointed society...
Smashed and turned over to the war scrap collection in West Orange, N.J.: a brass and bronze horn built by Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in the mid-'20s to make phonograph recordings. Weight: five tons; length: 125 feet...
According to Bradford Cobb '44. War Service Committee. "The student made a good showing last summer by contributing two wagon loads--all of it grade A scrap--but we hope that they will do even better this time. Tin cans, bottle caps and cost hangers are not wanted. Cobb pointed out, since experience this summer proved that they were more of an annoyance than a benefit...