Scrap Drives May Have Trashed Cars, But Were the Drives Necessary?

[Aarongriffey]

We used tooth powder in those days.
During the war my Dad bought a 200 acre farm in Wisconsin.
After we got the crops and cattle moved we noticed a 40 acre pasture was heavily covered with milk weeds.
A few mornings before I went to school (first grade) after milking the cows the old man wood get the FordFergusen out and we’d ride over to that pasture and get a few gunny sacs of milk weed pods.
The government was paying 25 cents a sac for them.
They were using them to stuff life preservers with.
It was a bid deal to be so patriotic in those days. Especially for a six year old.