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The Story of a Boy Who's Fighting on Every Front
"I'm the Dutch Boy And I*m * pretry huiy boy, these d*ys . ..
"You set, my folks, the National Lead people, have lots of jobs for me to Jo besiJes making paint materials to protect military buiiJings, factories and homes ...
"For example, we're helping Uncle Sam s scrap metal drive . , . acting as a government agent (ot salvaging tons and tons of those vital metals you hear so much about . .. lead, tin. zinc and antimony.
"But eama . . . let s hop over to the battle front and go along on a bomber raid ...
"There's our plane now. My folks turn out acid handling equipment that helps make that high-powered aviation gar these big bombers thrive on ...
"Contact! Listen, to those motors rake hoiJ. Mistet, she's sure got lead in her batteries!
"Now she's roiling--and rolling on synthetic rubber. Our aciu equipment helps make that too.
"Were over the Channel, with everything clicking . . .
. . . See that instrument board and all that equipment? Thou sands of wires connected with lead-and-tm solders made by National Lead ...
"Mara coma the Jerries' Look at out gunners tracer bullets finding their marks' They contain magnesium. More of n s m the rfares and incendiaries being dropped. We put up a special plant to increase the supply of magnesium.
"Look--there's rhe target now' Wa.tch the bombardier at his bomDsighr. Lead oxides neip give his ienses the extra mag nifying power they need.
"Thara fa the block busters! That noise you heat is t n t . You can t produce thar stuff without concentrated sulfuric acid. Oleum! as it s called by rhe boys at National Lead who makeit...
"Wish thtt could have come along But they're busy on everything from lead for anchoring submarine nets ro bearing metals (ot tank engines . . . doing everything they can to help bring our fighting men back sooner." National Lead Company, 111 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y.
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