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...understood the men are not to be feted as heroes; they are to slip quietly back into their jobs, tell their stories "without embellishment" to their bunk mates in the Armored Force, preach the value of maneuvers. Their only reward, other than their experience: each was advanced one grade...
...Almost all Army & Navy specifications call for virgin metals, though secondary metal would often do just as well. The Navy still insists upon top-grade primary aluminum for cable cases, fire-control boxes, etc. In copper, there is an actual surplus of secondary metal on the market, while painfully short virgin metal is still insisted upon for belts and insignia, laundry equipment, whistles, zippers...
...three times as much as in all of 1932. And just when the demand for scrap is zooming to record heights, some of the most important peacetime sources are supplying less than they normally do and, in many cases, what they are supplying is lower-grade scrap. For example, the railroads (usually good for 4,250,000 tons of scrap a year) are finding it next to impossible to get new equipment, so they are hanging on to old equipment for dear life instead of junking it for scrap. Even the steel mills themselves are getting less "home scrap" (usually...
...last 90 years the steel industry has spent millions in futile efforts to make sponge iron. Catch in the process is selection of an ore which can yield high-grade sponge. Plants in Sweden and Finland are now turning it out profitably...
...homes with soap & water bought a sponge. "I am old-fashioned," she explained. "Everybody else uses a washcloth, but I like a sponge for my bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved on to the grocer's. "Good morning, Madam," said the grocer. The Queen bought some soap and some washing flakes. Then she departed as she had come, in a big armored...