You probably knew that people collected scrap metal during World War II to help the war effort, but did you know that citizens also were asked to collect scrap metal in the early 1950s? Does anyone know what the NPA is/was? I thought it might be a mistake, that the author had intended to write NPB, but the National Production Board was dissolved in 1945 after Japan surrendered. The following article is from the May, 1951, issue of Extension Farm-News, published by N.C.
State College, Raleigh.
North
Carolina farmers are being asked once again to get in the scrap by salvaging
scrap metal.
Iron and
steel scrap is badly needed to keep the nation’s steel mills rolling at full
capacity, says the National Production Authority of the U.S. department of
Commerce.
The NPA points out that about 67 million tons of scrap from all
sources will be required to keep steel furnaces going in 1951. The all-time
high of 61 million tons was attained last year. Therefore, steel mills will
require 6 million more tons of scrap in 1951 than was used in 1950.
Extension
Service officials at N.C. State College believe that spring clean-up offers
farmers a good opportunity to salvage the scrap so urgently needed for military
and civilian products.
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