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...months the Bloc has not been willing because Congress was not willing to boost the price of silver. Result: silver has been so scarce that the PhotoEngravers Board of Trade of New York went so far as to melt silver dollars to get silver for industrial uses (photographic plates, solder...
...expression "tinker's dam" by spelling it "tinker's damn" [TIME, Jan. 7]? ... The latter expression means nothing. A tinker's dam was really a dam made of clay, which the traveling tinkers used to surround a spot on a pan or kettle to keep the solder from spreading or running until it cooled, while [the utensil was] being repaired. As soon as the solder cooled, the dam was thrown away as useless and worthless. Hence . . . "tinker's dam" to denote something having no value...
...characters when he is drawing them. He commonly throws his face out of joint trying to get their wacky crankinesses into line. Small-mustached, small and quick of eye, he looks normally like the art director of a small advertising agency. He was one once. Before that he inspected solder connections for General Electric...
...solder (lead and 2½% silver), which has been found cheaper and stronger than tin solder...
...Silver consumption last year soared 95% over 1940, to 80,000,000 ounces. Chief new uses: as solder and as a substitute for copper. Silver is one metal for which no shortage is in view: the U.S. Treasury has well over 1,000,000,000 ounces of bullion...