*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. On Oct. 5, 1942, the first day of their drive, young people throughout the city and county hauled in 2,800 tons of scrap metal to ...
Social media did not exist when an explosion scattered pots, pans and other household goods on the streets of downtown Rehoboth. The Delaware Coast News reported on Oct. 16, 1942 that the blast also ...
Students at Clark School, 1020 Union Boulevard, deposit some of their findings on Oct. 5, 1942, the first day of the two-week student drive to collect scrap for the war effort. Area students rounded ...
Margaret Doorly had heard just about enough of her husband Henry’s whining. World-Herald Publisher Henry Doorly hatched the idea for a statewide scrap metal drive after his wife, Margaret Hitchcock ...