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Thespian2

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5. What the US did with the scrap steel...

Reply to MindMover (Original post)

Sun Apr 26, 2015, 10:20 PM

Apr 2015

"This photograph of Chinese Americans picketing at the Port of Astoria appeared in the Oregon Journal on March 3, 1939. The picket was organized to protest the sale of scrap iron and steel to Japan, where it was recycled into war material. At the time of the protest, the Japanese government was waging an undeclared war against China. In 1939 approximately 2,000,000 tons of scrap metal were exported from the United States to Japan."

The Japanese in WW II turned the scrap into weapons and shot our buses back at us...

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WTF ...201 [View all] MindMover Apr 2015 OP

I recently had the pleasure of taking the fast train in spain - Barcelona to Madrid, then DrDan Apr 2015 #1

exactly why in L.A., you need a car. marym625 Apr 2015 #2

This is definitely a wtf ... pbmus Apr 2015 #3

We should also be shipping much more by rail. The cost of all those trucks on the road is brewens Apr 2015 #4

What the US did with the scrap steel... Thespian2 Apr 2015 #5

There's a great documentary about that ... eppur_se_muova Apr 2015 #6

An LA friend of mine grew up taking trolleys all over the LA area treestar Apr 2015 #7