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Banquet for collecting the most scrap metal in the nation, Lancaster County, 1942.
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large banquet room fileld with tables of employees celebrating collection of scrap.

Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives

In 1942, Lancaster County led the nation in the collection of scrap rubber, collecting 1.5 million pounds, 2 ½ times the quota.

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