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Show WHY SALVAGE? Salvage means saving things that you cannot use any more and sending them back to the smelters and the mills to be remade. re-made. Salvaged material is a vital vit-al source of war materials. Right now the government is stressing need of scrap metals tin, brass, copper, lead, iron, aluminum. Did you know that one old flatiron will provide enough scrap iron to make four hand grenades? With a metal shortage all scraps of metals are important. import-ant. 130 million Americans are facing fac-ing one of the most important assignments ever given to the home front in this nation's watf time history. To meet America's increasingly increasing-ly critical shortage of raw materials ma-terials every man, woman and child in the country is being enrolled en-rolled in the nation-wide drive for scrap metals, lack of which is already beginning to hamper the war effort. The organization of the all-out scrap collection, one of the most colossal jobs ever undertaken by the nation, is going ahead under direction of the Conservation Division of the War Production board. Great gains have been made in their efforts to gather the estimated 17,000,000 tons of scrap metals lying about the country. Thousands of pounds have already al-ready been collected and are in the hands of junk dealers ready to be started along the way to munitions manufacturers. Women of the nation have been asked to plan and carry out the last and most complete phase of the salvage collection program. The chiefs of the national drive have recommended that patriotic women in each community be sent into individual homes, discuss dis-cuss with housewives the vital materials being sought and make an attic to basement canvass for scrap. |