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Proud of the pre-war anti-Axis record of his West Coast longshoremen's union, the labor leader expressed regret only that the union voted a proposal to anticipate the scrap metal embarge against Japan on their own initiative. If his union had tied up shipments to Tokio in the single week before the government embargo took effect, he explained remorsefully, as much essential metal as has been collected in all the nation's scrap drives would have remained on this side of the Pacific...
Representative from war service organizations at tufts, Jackson, Northeastern Radcliffe, Wheelock, Simmons, and Emerson were called together by the Harvard War Service Committee to report on their activities, which included programs as war bond and stamp sales, scrap drives, volunteer drives, information and publication work, war relief, ARP, and first...
Every floor had its own tinfoil collection depot-we've had our own rubber and scrap metal reclamation day-almost a hundred of us have graduated from the First Aid classes we held five nights a week in our reception room-and the Treasury Department gave us its Certificate of Merit for the number of employees who signed up to buy bonds regularly in our own War Bond Drive...
Although the future of major league baseball is still uncertain, "Scrap Iron". Lupien says that he hopes to go back to the Sox if the team plays next year...
Danger now is that local scrap collec tions may bog down because scrap dealers are receiving more metal than they can handle. When scrap piles in community dumping grounds do not move quickly, people who searched from attic to cellar for contributions may get disgusted with the whole drive. Actually dealers are ship ping scrap to the mills as quickly as pos sible and at a satisfactory rate. But deal ers are handicapped because the publicly collected scrap requires careful sorting (about 30% of the take thus far has been metal not suited for steelmaking - non-ferrous metals, galvanized zinc...