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...several months, the University has been eliminating all its academic frills, and it has recently taken off some of its architectural frills. All the iron ornaments along the peak of the roof on Matthews Hall, have been taken down, and will be given to the government for scrap...
...picked demolition detail lop off a 17-in. tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string, 6½lb. of TNT) tore the guns from an old World War I tank. A hand grenade and booby trap were manufactured on the spot from the same pick-up materials...
...found that the two big untapped sources of metal scrap are 1) auto grave yards, 2) the nation's 6,500,000 farms, where an estimated one to two and a half million-ton hoard of old machinery lies mouldering. To round up the farm scrap, he decided that paid collectors were necessary. The first thousand collectors announced by Rosenwald last week: WPA workers, with WPA trucks, to go from farm to farm collecting scrap (they will ask for it as a gift, pay for it if need be). It will be auctioned to commercial dealers, who must promise...
...farm-collection drive is well under way, other thousands will take on the cities. Meanwhile, Rosenwald's Auto Graveyard Section is after 3,000,000-3,750,000 tons of jalopy. If Matt Fox's plan turns up the 4,000,000-6,000,000 tons of scrap that he hopes for, the Battle of Junk will...
...another exporter in San Francisco I offered to ship scrap iron if he could ship back a part of it in rolled bars. The answer was disheartening...