STEEL SHORTAGE POSSIBLE
* COLLECTION OF SCRAP URGED (Received June 25, 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 24.
“The war production programme, notably in tanks and shipbuilding, is being delayed alarmingly by bottlenecks,” declared Mr Phillip Murray (president of the C.1.D.), in a special report on the steel industry to the War Production Board. He asserted that failure to accumulate scrap iron and steel stockpiles may cause the steel industry to decline to 80 per cent, of its capacity this winter. Mr Murray said the giant steel corporations were responsible for the bottleneck in steel plates for shipbuilding He recommends the creation of a board to build up a 10,000,000-ton scrap stockpile by November, tearing up all iron fences round schools and parks if necessary.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23674, 26 June 1942, Page 4
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