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...drafting of a great portion of the student body will place a new source of scrap before the authorities now conducting the College's war drive. The metal and rubber collected will be used in the making of guns, engine mounts, airplane de-icers, protective padding and other vital war products...
Under the sponsorship of the War Service Committee the fall scrap drive has already begun, it was announced recently. A special division for war salvage, headed by Bradford Cobb '44, was set up to organize the campaign...
...this summer's drive two wagon loads of scrap were taken in by the salvagers. Much of this was of little use, however, including such items as a pair of shoulder guards from Eliot House and a collection of beer bottle tops. "The bottles themselves would have been a lot more useful," said Cobb, "even if they were empty...
...recent months this staff has documented for our Business section some of the most-important stories TIME has carried. They took the lead in highlighting the critical scrap shortage in steel and the critical manpower shortage in copper. They were first to detail the dramatic expansion of American aviation all over the world and the imminence of hourly flights from New York to London. They were among the first to point up the need of meat rationing and coffee rationing and the foolishness of sugar rationing; the end of the aluminum shortage, the approach of the lumber shortage...
...Mayor again felt the stings of ingratitude. With the best intentions in the world, he posed for a news picture showing him about to plunge a knife into a rubber dragon which Macy's department store once used for Thanksgiving Day parades and is now donating to the scrap pile. Some Manhattan ingrates suggested that this was not the first rubber dragon their Mayor had slain...