Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another war, as in this one, we shall probably be caught short in metals. When that happens, metal memorials, however unsightly, would come in mighty handy. They might be inscribed: Expendable Monument; and below that, just to be on the safe side: Not to Be Sold to Japan for Scrap...
...word came soon enough. Ed Stettinius kept mum until his next regular press conference. He greeted the correspondents with his usual affability. Then, casually, he said he had a statement. From a scrap of paper, Ed Stettinius read...
...scapegoats. Pearl Harbor was no isolated event: it was the culmination of a foreign policy which had resulted in war. The U.S., to gain time for an inevitable war with Japan-inevitable unless Japan was to be allowed to conquer Asia-had appeased Japan by selling her oil and scrap iron, and then had begun to squeeze Japan by gradually cutting off these supplies...
...Commander Walter Karig and Lieut. Welbourn Kelley of the department's Office of Public Relations: "Tell the story of the Navy's part in this war . . . particularly those early days, when the Japs were having things their own way, and when we had to examine every scrap of information with a microscope for fear it would be helpful to the enemy." Karig, a reservist and former Washington newsman, and Kelley, former radio scriptwriter and author of a melodramatic novel, So Fair a House, spent months combing combat reports in the Navy's secret files, interviewing officers...
Slim Chance? Already entrenched against some phases of the Army's plan is the National Guard Association. Reason: the Guard fears the Army would scrap it as superfluous and no longer practical (except possibly as state militias set up for police and disaster work). Stoutly on record as favoring universal military training, the politically potent Association will nevertheless fight any attempt to wash out their organization. Major General Ellard A. Walsh, Association president, said: "The chances of the Regular Army to impose its ideas of a military establishment on the nation are probably slim...