Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British and South American tin men formed the British-American Corp. with the avowed purpose of stabilizing the price of tin at ?265 a long ton ($1,284). This price would be the equivalent of about 57 1/2 a pound as compared to last week's National Metal Exchange (Manhattan) quotations of around 45?. The one million pound capital of British-American Corp. will be privately subscribed, subscribers including Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, Director of Midland Bank (world's largest), Sir John Mullins, whose brokerage firm floats loans for the British Government and the Bank of England, John...
Strong Tin. No precious metal is tin, yet it is one of the rarest of the common metals. Tin deposits in British Malaya produce about 60,000 tons annually; Dutch East Indian deposits about 35,000, Bolivian about 40,000, Nigerian about 9,000 tons-total 143,000 tons. World production last year was only 159,135 tons. Metallurgists see no likelihood of new tin fields being soon discovered and many of the mines now being operated will run out just as the once-famed Cornish tin mines are now virtually exhausted. Meanwhile the demand for tin constantly increases, thus...
Consumption. Production of U. S. tin is negligible; but this country consumed (1928) 81,516 tons, or more than half the world's consumption. Tin is used mostly in combination with other metals. Most famed union is the copper-tin alloy bronze, from which was fashioned the short sword of the Roman Legions. Varying proportions of copper and tin give gun metal, bell metal, babbitt metal and many another alloy, the greater the percentage of tin the harder being the resulting composition. A tin and lead alloy is solder. Greatest use of tin (35% of total) is the making...
Other commodity exchanges in Manhattan include National Raw Silk, National Metal, New York Metal, New York Cotton, New York Coffee & Sugar, New York Cocoa, New York Fruit, National Malt & Hop, New York Poultry, New York Produce (oil, flour, provisions, grain) Exchanges...
...surmise that the "plants" are the old Cleveland-Chandler plant (recently bought by Hupp) in Cleveland and the Gardner plant in St. Louis, and that experimental Ruxtons are being built at the Budd Philadelphia works. The Budd company has been announced as official body builders for the (all metal) Ruxton...