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...third year of war opens, he must look with different upon the folly of his attack upon the Soviet Union. With the flower of his Army stricken on the fields of the Soviet land, and with thousands of his tanks and air planes reduced to scrap, he must now with ever-growing fear at the forces of the enemy he once despised...
...make it more worth the junkman's while, Block's campaign is also aimed at scrap metal and rags. Last week OPM's Conservation Division called 80 scrap dealers to Washington, told them OPM would soon start a national campaign to increase their collection of all kinds of scrap...
...because they had to pay freight on stuff they could not use; in addition had to pay men to cull the aluminum, a job usually done by the junk man. Worse still, the smelters began to run out of storage space. In relation to its bulk, some of the scrap yielded only one-third the expected aluminum...
...smelters agreed to pay 11.5? a pound for the scrap, but meanwhile Alcoa has announced that on Sept. 30 the price of virgin aluminum will be reduced from 17? to 15? a pound. Fearing that Leon Henderson will make a similar reduction (from 17?) in his ceiling on secondary aluminum (made from scrap), the scrap smelters-mostly smallish businesses-are jittery about being squeezed between the price they have to pay and their selling price...
Meanwhile in cities, where piles of scrap still blight city halls, mayors began to scream too. But McConnell, surveying the mess he did not make, was still remarkably optimistic. Allowing for baby carriages, he still hopes to get 8,400,000 Ib. of aluminum out of the 14,000,000 Ib. of scrap collected. Estimated Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and "essential" civilian requirements...