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In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly slowed the programme'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 tonnes 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 tonnes of scrap 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Military history

• Full title: Prairie Forge
• Subtitle: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II
• Author: James J. Kimble
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236
• EAN: 9780803248786
• ISBN: 0803248784
• ID: 04923421
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 338 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 159 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2014

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