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...bigger and less big than most rumormongers hinted. Less big, because Colonel Donovan has no military rank (he insisted on taking over as a civilian), no command of the agents who hand him information. Bigger, because Colonel Donovan reports directly to the President, will have a look at every scrap of war information collected by Army & Navy Intelligence, the State Department, FBI, U.S. trade commissioners, food agents throughout the world...
From millions of U.S. kitchens, attics, cellars, industrial nooks & crannies poured millions of pots & pans, kettles, hair curlers, meat cutters, ice-cream dippers, anything and everything made of aluminum. Just how much usable aluminum-for-defense was collected will not be known until the mountains of donated scrap are melted down. (None of it can be used in defense industry, but this scrap will release virgin aluminum that can be so used.) But long before the last pot had clattered into the last community bin, the drive had shown what happens when the U.S. citizenry is given something specific, useful...
...steel industry, Japan is 88% dependent on imports of iron ore, pig iron, scrap. In 1936 (last year Japan printed statistics on metals) she imported 6,000,000 tons from the U.S., Britain, the Philippines, Malaya, China...
Copper is available in Japan in amounts barely sufficient for peacetime needs. Last year Japan imported 130,356 tons of refined copper and scrap from the U.S., other large supplies from Latin America (now partly cut off by U.S. pre-emptive buying programs below the border). Other basic materials of which Japan is short include coal (barely enough for peacetime requirements), zinc (50% of peacetime
...most wasteful nation in the world began to mend its ways this week. All over the U.S., housewives dug into closets, came up with old aluminum pots & pans for defense.* OPM hoped the drive would turn up 15-20,000,000 lb. of scrap aluminum which could either be converted directly into defense products or used to replace virgin metal which would then be freed for aircraft production. This is the aluminum equivalent of some 4,000 fighter planes or 740 big bombers. The scrap will be sold to smelters through the Treasury Procurement Division. Money from the sale will...