Prairie Forge : The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II /
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in our nation's history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly slowed the program's momentum, and arms production fell dangerously behind schedule. The country needed scrap metal. Henry Doorly, publisher o...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Lincoln, NB :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2014]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: Home front, battlefront
- The scrap deficit; or how not to win a war
- Henry Doorly and the Nebraska plan
- Summertime scrapping in the city
- Mobilizing greater Nebraska
- The second-half comeback
- The Nebraska plan goes national
- Epilogue: home front, battlefront (revisited)
- Appendix: Nebraska county scrap results.