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...Mullen's results are rarely as heroic as her efforts. Already on their way to the 1,000-year-distant scrap heap are her portraits of Conductor Eugene Ormandy in chromium; Governor Herbert Lehman in britannia, Nelson Eddy in aluminum, General John Pershing (in stainless steel on the observation car of Burlington's General Pershing Zephyr). She has done others in pewter, gold, brass, glass and wood. Recently at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Navy officials dedicated her stainless steel murals Hong Kong Harbor and London Pool-two great scenes of British shipping...
...people who are building the track are quite ingenious." Indeed they are. All Garden State's structural materials had been purchased before Pearl Harbor; 60% of the metal was secondhand, the second-hand "Lai-lies" (concrete-filled steel cylinders) used in place of steel columns are unsuitable for scrap; wood was substituted for metal wherever possible; a sprinkler system was rented from a Florida track. Instead of the 1,900 tons of steel originally planned, Boss Mori got along with...
...scrap was in the battle's second phase. At Army Air Forces fields, bomber crews sprinted from their huts, swung into parachute harness. "This is it," airmen called as they climbed in. "This is it." ground crews agreed as the bombers became light-footed on the runways and sped into...
...Detroit shuddered over reports that WPB was about to order all of its auto molds and dies (made of high-alloy nickel steel) turned into scrap for munitions. Worth infinitely more than their $60,000,000 valuation in terms of quick postwar conversion to car production, their destruction would ensure a post-war designer's field day (see p. 82), would turn current models into worthless antiques even more surely than wartime rationing of tires...
...ordered 20,000 U.S. auto graveyards to convert all their jalopies into scrap every 60 days or face requisitioning. Within two and a half years, guessed WPB, 15,000,000 more cars will be junked-double the peacetime rate, and half of all the cars now in service...