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...industry knew all about the reasons for the slump. They were as obvious as a blast furnace: shortages of manpower, fuel and scrap, and a surplus of new war orders that upset production schedules. There was a new one, too: the weather...
Autumn. In St. Louis, Dr. and Mrs. Roscoe J. Reeder, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, capitulated, gave the scrap-paper drive ten pounds of love letters...
...another war, as in this one, we shall probably be caught short in metals. When that happens, metal memorials, however unsightly, would come in mighty handy. They might be inscribed: Expendable Monument; and below that, just to be on the safe side: Not to Be Sold to Japan for Scrap...
...night Hugo was entertaining the Duke of Hoven in his Virginia mansion. A dreadful scream rang out. A Negro child had been devoured by a monstrous fox. Nothing remained but a few bones, a pigtail, a pathetic scrap of petticoat. Hugo, Dev and the Duke leapt into the saddle, galloped madly after the fleeing...
...word came soon enough. Ed Stettinius kept mum until his next regular press conference. He greeted the correspondents with his usual affability. Then, casually, he said he had a statement. From a scrap of paper, Ed Stettinius read...