Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afloat in freighters on the high seas last week were 10,254 tons of tin bound for U. S. ports to be combined or converted into can coatings, automobile bearings, tooth fillings, gun metal, tin foil. At the same time, in Brussels, the discreet and powerful gentlemen whose companies mined this tin were agreeing to extend for five years the cartel by which world tin production is determined. Set for the first quarter of 1937 were production quotas at what the International Tin Committee calls "standard 100%," practically identical with 1929 production (192,000 tons). Siam, which nearly broke...
...Crawford, McKeesport Tin Plate...
...relief of their socialite constituents the city councilmen of Palm Beach last week thumbed down a proposed town trailer camp, decreed that the presence of more than one automobile trailer on a private lot constituted a public nuisance. In another rebuff to tin-can tourists the Palm Beach councilmen limited the parking of trailers on streets or highways to one hour, prohibited cooking in them during that period...
...cocoa's rise, as for that of more staple commodities, the obvious and basic explanation is increased consumption. But there have also been special reasons for the hot cocoa market. Unlike rubber and tin (see p. 59) cocoa production is not amenable to cartel agreement. The cocoa tree, which was discovered in Mexico by the Spanish conquistadores, is a sensitive plant, takes from six to eight years of careful tending before it yields a good crop of cocoa beans. In West Africa where one-third of the world's crop is harvested, native growers...
...expires March 31. Or it might be a steel strike. Some 250 steel company-union leaders rallied at a missionary meeting of Leader Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization in Pittsburgh last week, heard his pious and progressive lieutenant, Philip Murray, claim that Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has already enrolled 128,000 of the nation's 500,000 steel workers, threaten trouble unless steelmasters cease their "dog-in-the-manger attitude." C. I. O. also defied its antagonists in the great Steel campaign last week by haling Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., biggest U. S. Steel...