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...scheme to increase steel scrap collections, even on the farms, was formally approved by WPB last week. The scheme was proposed by International Harvester's young, imaginative president Fowler McCormick, grandson-successor of the late, great inventor Cyrus McCormick...
Fowler McCormick's bright idea begins with a scrap search in Harvester's own plants and branches, next mobilizes the company's 60,000 employes to rummage in their own basements and backyards. But its third phase is what made Conservator Lessing Rosenwald call it "ingenious." To encourage farmers to bring out the 1,500,000-3,500,000 tons of scrap that WPB thinks is piled up in U.S. barns and barnyards, President McCormick is mobilizing his 10,000 farm-implement dealers. The dealers will encourage farmers to bring in their scrap, hold it until...
...agreed to furnish the men. At the second yard were 500 cars, plainly being held for higher prices. The proprietor showed no interest in a deal. Whereupon Major John S. Swauger of the Pittsburgh Ordnance District (who has requisitioning power) remarked: "If no agreement for the sale of this scrap is made within a week, we'll take whatever action is necessary...
Within a few days, with Major Swauger's help, Armco had rounded up some 2,000 tons of scrap near Butler...
This week New York, Birmingham, Pittsburgh, other towns had launched civic scrap-collecting experiments. The New York campaign was a bust, and not much was expected of the others. Meanwhile steel mills got shorter & shorter of scrap...