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...people who had been fretting about having no part in the war effort last week had something to do: collect steel scrap...
With steel mills (which in their own operations produce about half of the scrap they use) using up purchased scrap at the record rate of two and a quarter million tons a month, the Government is trying desperately to collect 17,000,000 tons to keep them going through the winter (when scrap collection lags because of the weather...
...trying to let our service men know just who of his fellow workers are in this scrap," said Leo Roche, editor, in a current editorial. "Some of our men are in the air some under the sea. Some of them have been at Pearl Harbor since December 5th and are now in the Aleutians; more have been in contact with the enemy at sea. These are the men we have worked with...
...view with alarm the hasty effort of many cities and villages to court publicity by scrapping historical metal statues and war relics to meet a questionable demand for scrap metal. These treasures are the symbols of American traditions and by right and decent standards of culture should remain in our parks and public grounds as a perpetual reminder that we won our freedom the hard way and should fight to preserve...
Exhibited in the marble halls of the Commerce Building were more than a thousand specimens of advertising keyed to the war-magazine and newspaper pages, car cards and posters designed to confront the individual with the struggle in terms of war bonds, scrap drives and the conservation of U.S. resources...