Keep on Scrapping: The Salvage Drives of World War II

Hugh Rockoff

NBER Working Paper No. 13418
Issued in September 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

This is a revised version of a paper that was presented to the Siena College Conference on WWII (June 2000). I thank the participants in that session whose substantial criticisms have made this a much better paper. I thank Joel Goldman of Admiral Scrap Metal Company in Phoenix, Arizona for discussing the scrap business with me. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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