Sentence examples for scrap drive from inspiring English sources

(It did serve its country well, however, being sent off for service in World War II in a scrap drive).

When my parents and I came to the United States, my father enthusiastically gave his Iron Cross to the metal scrap drive.

"The normal course of events would be to have scrapped that stuff during the Second World War scrap drive," said George King, a steam engineer at the Mystic Seaport maritime museum in Connecticut.

When the class secretary, dear Ann Mahlon, her luxuriant head of chestnut curls now whiter than bleached laundry, takes the microphone and runs us through a quiz on the old days — teachers' nicknames, the names of vanished luncheonettes and ice-cream parlors, the titles of our junior and senior plays, the winner of the scrap drive in third grade — the answers are shouted out on all sides.

The Art Gallery of South Australia saved them from a 1941 wartime scrap drive and mounted them on reproduction naval carriages in front of Government House in 1962.

The building was originally surrounded by iron railings as shown in 19th century photographs, but these are no longer there, possibly removed during the Second World War as part of a nationwide scrap drive.

World War I and World War II loom as blips, when trash levels fell because of wartime scrap drives.

The time was World War II, and in shop windows, schools and factories, posters urged support for the troops by conserving gasoline, organizing scrap drives and planting victory gardens.

Residents engaged in civil defense drills and supported the war effort with scrap drives and war bond purchases.

The invitation included lunch beforehand at Whyte's Restaurant, where reporter was greeted by Charles H. Huff, & Frank D. March, representing, respectively, the city scrap-drive people a & the WPB.

But with blood banks overflowing and no scrap metal drives in sight, people are not quite sure how to direct their good will.