After the war, Great Britain and the United States faced the same challenges with regard to aluminum: a possible glut in aluminum production, the need to create peacetime employment for skilled workers, and an equally urgent need to rebuild. Ideas about how aluminum might solve the acute housing shortages on both sides of the Atlantic were popular. In Britain, particularly, aluminum served as a substitute for materials, like wood, that were in short supply.

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