Word: tinfoil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar tin can. A tin can consists of about 98½% iron or steel and 1½% of tin-the tin being merely a coating or plate over the steel. Tin, contrary to common supposition, does not rust, corrode or tarnish. Tin is used by itself chiefly in tinfoil, used in wrapping chocolate bars, cigarets and similar products, and also in the manufacture of collapsible tubing, as in shaving-cream and toothpaste tubes. Tin can be hammered so thin that one pound of tin is enough for 18,500 square inches of tinfoil...
Temperature, tinfoil. Into the merging pot were thrown two companies making devices to control temperature (Robert Shaw Thermostat Co., Fulton Sylphon Co.). two companies producing tinfoil (U. S. Foil Co., Beechnut Foil Co.). Reynolds Metal Co. emerged...
...other. On the drum's surface was incised a spiral line. On either side of the drum was a small tube; over the inner end of each tube was a parchment diaphragm; centred in each diaphragm and pricking into the spiral incision was a needle. Mr. Edison wrapped tinfoil around the drum, cranked slowly and into one of the tubes loudly declaimed, "Mary had a little lamb! Mary had a little lamb!" Turning the shaft back, he adjusted the other tube, cranked again and the tube repeated timidly, "Mary had a little lamb." Mr. Edison and a mechanic worked...
About 30% of cigarette sales in China are "loose sales"-that is two or three cigarettes for a small coin. Small shop-keepers are inclined to favor this "odd lot buying," as it enables them to save the tinfoil cigarette wrappings and sell them back to the cigarette manufacturers for an additional profit...