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...business. The steel industry, using ¾ Ib. of aluminum (as a cleanser) to make a ton of steel, is now using about 30,000 tons. When steel uses aluminum, it uses it up completely, and around a quarter of its products require virgin metal. But die castings need only scrap, and represent a scrap reservoir. Yet all steel has an A-10 or better priority rating on aluminum, while die castings limp along in the Bs, getting only 10 to 40% of their 1940 consumption...
...British believe they have "a pretty good chance of holding Suez and Egypt," are reasonably confident about the struggle for the Mediterranean basin, expect a bitter scrap, believe Gibraltar can withstand a land attack...
Having admitted aluminum's poverty, OPM proceeded to pass the hat for it. In interventionist Richmond, Va. and in isolationist Madison, Wis. (and their counties), it put school children. Boy Scouts, American Legionnaires to work collecting aluminum scrap. This week the experiment ended and OPM waited for the returns to come...
...returns are good, the hat may be passed on a nationwide scale this summer. How much aluminum scrap there is in U.S. pantries and basements, no one knows. But 0PM calculates that if each U.S. family gives up one pound, it can scrape together 30,000,000 lb.-better than a fortnight's production...
...week's end more than 100 truckloads were piled up in front of Wisconsin's capitol, and the local committee was beginning to hope that when the collection ended this week it would have 120,000 lb. of scrap-better than 6 lb. from each of Dane County's families. In Richmond, scrap aluminum (including four outgrown artificial legs from one donor) piled up just as fast. When the collections are over the metal will be rolled flat, baled, sold at 10½? a lb. Proceeds will go to the regional defense councils. The scrap, not usable...