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Old rails for new shells. Abandoned street car tracks are being pulled up in Washington, D.C., to add badly needed steel to the nation's scrap pile. Although some of the rails will be reused, hundreds of tons will go into steel furnaces to make new war materials. As the rails are anchored firmly, mu
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Credit lineOld rails for new shells. Abandoned street car tracks are being pulled up in Washington, D.C., to add badly needed steel to the nation's scrap pile. Although some of the rails will be reused, hundreds. 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information, Danor, George. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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