U S Requests Citizens Aid In Scrap Hunt
War scrap plea urges every household to salvage metal paper rags and rubber to boost war production. WPB notes steel needs rely on scrap, autos halted save zinc copper nickel and tin for ammo and equipment. Household baler aids disposal of papers, showing salvage can be profitable and patriotic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert W. McShane
Union
Uncle Sam
War Production Board
United States
WPB
Britain
Russia
China
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
Bureau
Salvage Drive Urges Nations Farms to Raise Scrap Metal
Government figures reveal massive scrap iron and steel piles on six million farms nationwide. The War Production Board warns the metal must be reclaimed now to meet defense needs and keep war production on schedule. Local salvage committees coordinate curbside pickups, with farmers and households urged to turn in old machinery, tires, lead, copper, and rags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Ministry of Supply
Leon Henderson
U. S
Uncle Sam
America
Roosevelt
South America
War production facts show steel use for vehicles and ships
The article notes that 27 ton tanks yield 24 cars, heavy cruiser hulls use 9 635 tons steel, a 35 000 ton battleship needs 18 000 tons, ordnance shells require 30 000 tons of paper board monthly, and a passenger car yields about 1 500 pounds of scrap iron and steel. It also lists steel use for trucks and tanks and mentions blueprint paper for battleship plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Ordnance
Nation's Pressure Groups Threat to War Production
A wartime column analyzes competing pressure groups in Congress and society, noting the farm, labor, business, and white collar lobbies shape policy while the broad middle class remains underrepresented. It discusses postwar shifts, British agricultural mobilization, and the need to convert industry to war production including sugar, whiskey, and peanut oil necessities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WNU
Washington
D.C
United States
United Nations
Mona Va
Australia
Pacific ‘Council
Anzac Nations
Great Britain
China
Congress
The
Legion
Labor
Farm Bloc
Big Business
John Q
Farm Front
Businss
Labor Front
America
BRIEFS from Bankhage Farm and wartime notes
Farmers with a cash skim milk market can donate to the Food-for-Freedom dairy drive by selling skim milk to calves. Calves thrive if skim milk stops at three months with a balanced grain mix and ample feed. Also notes $800 million in farm commodities bought March 1941–1942 for UN shipments under lend-lease and a lingering snowman in the White House grounds after Washington’s spring blizzard.
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United Nations
Washington
White House
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