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Present tin cans are about 98.5% sheet steel, 1.5% tin. (A recent WPB order has reduced the tin content of future cans to 1.25%.) By washing and shredding the cans, then treating with caustic soda and other chemicals, it is possible to extract about 25 Ib. of tin oxide (readily smelted to a grade equivalent to Straits tin) per ton. The detinned sheet steel, once despised and used only for rough castings such as sash weights, is now in big demand by scrap-hungry steelmakers...
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, who threatened fortnight ago to gag the London Daily Mirror's caustic criticism of the Government (TIME, March 30), instead of backing down under the fierce drubbing which was administered to him by virtually the entire British press and a good part of the House of Commons, returned to the attack, under an even fiercer drubbing...
...delegates were by no means agreed on the effectiveness of these modern methods. Most caustic was University of South Carolina's 60-year-old Professor Reed Smith, who decried "the neglect of fundamentals." Said...
This is at least as simple as the present method of making alumina from bauxite ore, which is by no means pure when mined. Its gross impurities, such as sand, are removed by crushing, washing, sifting. It is then dissolved in hot caustic soda or "lye," which does not dissolve the subtler impurities. When the hot lye cools in towering tanks, pure aluminum hydroxide separates from it and is ready to be baked and electrolyzed...
...have with the caustic wit of your public utterance stripped the coverings from the stupid pretensions and the cunning treason of both domestic and foreign enemies of the people...