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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 of the Omaha World-Herald, had the solution. Prairie Forge tells the story of the great Nebraska scrap drive of 1942-a campaign that swept the nation and yielded five million tons of scrap metal, literally salvaging the war effort itself. James J. Kimble chro |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Nebraska
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Scrap metals -- Recycling -- Nebraska -- History -- 20th century
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Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- Nebraska -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Economics
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Salvage (Waste, etc.)
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Scrap metals -- Recycling
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Nebraska -- History -- 20th century
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Nebraska
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803254152 |
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0803254156 |
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0803254164 |
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9780803254169 |
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