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Battling back against market inroads by aluminum, plastics and concrete, steelmen are also pushing thinner but stronger wire cable, lighter structural girders, even tinless cans coated with resins. Having upped its research staff from 274 to 700 persons, Bethlehem Steel in the last year has brought out a corrosion-resistant sheet steel cheaper than some alloys, devised a plastic coating to protect suspension-bridge cables from the weather. U.S. Steel has just introduced a spiral nail which not only fastens lumber more securely but provides up to 29% more nails per pound than the smooth-shank variety. And Crucible Steel...
...Tinless Cans. Reynolds Metals Co. announced two ways to make cans without using scarce tin. One method uses heavy aluminum foil coated with plastic material; the other uses steel coated on either side with aluminum. Price: "very competitive" with tin cans...
...solder-clerk, then went into selling. He rose to sales boss in Philadelphia (where he sold the world's first pressurized tennis ball cans to the Pennsylvania Rubber Co.). He became executive vice president in 1949, lately has set American Can's researchers to developing a "tinless tin can" to meet the tin shortage...
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