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Advanced Materials & Processes,  January, 2002  

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January 1942: "We are now in this war. We are all in it all the way. Every single man, woman and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history. We must share together the bad news and the good news, the defeats and the victories -- the changing fortunes of war." -- From U.S.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Address to the Nation," 9 Dec. 1941, in Critical Points, by Ernest E. Thum, editor. The metal industry becomes the very heart of America's war efforts as Uncle Sam calls for more metal, for more guns and ships and ...

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