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...attempt to break Ritchie's grip, Rommel sent a tank unit against the British. The British tanks met the German spearhead, claimed the destruction of 22 of Rommel's prized tanks, the damage of 20 others. British Hussars mopped up five truckloads of German infantry after the scrap. But the Axis boasted the destruction of 74 British tanks and armored cars...
...Arthur Whiteside estimated their 1942 production at only 82,600,000 tons-200,000 tons less than output in 1941. For by then a new shortage had arisen that would more than offset the capacity increase: a shortage in steel's own raw materials, especially scrap...
From 1935 to Jan. 1941, the U.S. exported over 20,000,000 tons of iron & steel scrap, chiefly to Italy and Japan...
...annually v. an estimated 60,000,000 tons for all Axis mills. But 60% of this-the amount now going into war essentials-is still not enough. Last week a steel shortage was bearing down on the U.S. war program with fearful swiftness. Shortages in pig iron and steel scrap were the main reasons...
...additions to pig-iron capacity are 71 going up fast.* The scrap shortage (estimated at 10,000,000 tons for 1942) drove Lessing Rosenwald, OPM's Conservation Chief, to announce a house-to-house drive at week's end. The Steelmakers meanwhile began getting more steel into munitions by cancellation of civilian orders and rearranging mill schedules. More than that they cannot do because steelmaking is a seven-day continuous operation and they were already working near capacity...