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Paperback Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II Book

ISBN: 0803248784

ISBN13: 9780803248786

Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II

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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...

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