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Show Winning the War With Waste C, Enough steel and rubber go into a single 27-ton medium tank to make 24 automobiles. C The steel in the hull of a heavy cruiser totals 6,635 tons. In a 35,000-ton 35,000-ton battleship, 18,000 tons are needed. need-ed. C. The shells turned out by army ordnance plants are packed in 30,000 tons of paper board each month. C. A passenger car yields about 1.500 pounds of scrap iron and steel. C A half-ton truck (blitz buggy) takes 3.970 pounds of steel, a four-ton four-ton truck 18,000 pounds, a 27-ton tank uses 72.000 pounds and a light tank 32,000 pounds. C A carload of blueprint paper is used in drawing the plans for one of our 35,000-ton battleships. |