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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kimble, James J., 1966-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
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.