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Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. They look pretty useless, don't they? Actually, they're some of the vital scrap metal Uncle Sam needs and needs badly, for the production of guns, planes, ships and tanks
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Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. They look pretty useless, don't they? Actually, they're some of the vital scrap metal Uncle Sam needs and needs badly, for the production of guns, planes, ships and tanks

United States. Office For Emergency Management · 1940-01-01 · photo, print, drawing

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Credit lineWeapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. They look pretty useless, don't they? Actually, they're some of the vital scrap metal Uncle Sam needs and needs badly, for the pro. 1940-01-01. United States. Office For Emergency Management. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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