The most wasteful nation in the world began to mend its ways this week. All over the U.S., housewives dug into closets, came up with old aluminum pots & pans for defense.* OPM hoped the drive would turn up 15-20,000,000 lb. of scrap aluminum which could either be converted directly into defense products or used to replace virgin metal which would then be freed for aircraft production. This is the aluminum equivalent of some 4,000 fighter planes or 740 big bombers. The scrap will be sold to smelters through the Treasury Procurement Division....
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