Word: zirbel
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Wrightstown, Wis., 12-year-old Second Class Scout Gerald Zirbel collected 31,000 lb. of scrap iron in one week, which built up Uncle Sam's muscles as well as his own. So successful was the Boy Scout paper-salvage effort alone (300,000,000 lb.) that WPB had to beg them last week to call a halt to their "magnificent job." The Government asked them to pick up something else for a while-rubber, for instance...