Format:
1 online resource (162 pages)
ISBN:
9780803254169
Content:
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 chronicles Doorly's conception of a fierce competition pitting county against county, business against business, and, in schools across the state, class against class-inspiring Nebraskans to gather 67,000 tons of scrap metal in only three weeks. This astounding feat provided the template for a national drive. A tale of plowshares turned into arms, Prairie Forge gives the first full account of how home became home front for so many civilians.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Home Front, Battlefront -- 1. The Scrap Deficit, or How Not to Win a War -- 2. Henry Doorly and the Nebraska Plan -- 3. Summertime Scrapping in the City -- 4. Mobilizing Greater Nebraska -- 5. The Second-Half Comeback -- 6. The Nebraska Plan Goes National -- Epilogue: Home Front, Battlefront (Revisited) -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803248786
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780803248786
Language:
English
Keywords:
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