Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implacably: e.g., 80,000,000 bushels of flaxseed compared to last year's already catastrophic 50,000,000. In Buenos Aires, to conserve fuel, neon signs were doused, cinemas closed earlier, corn helped stoke locomotive and power-plant boilers. Autos & trucks were rationed; rationing was announced for tin plate, rubber, iron & steel, wood pulp, industrial chemicals. Newspapers' size was reduced. Tin-plate shortage caused a boom in glass and wood containers...
...second-year student at the Business School, E. Wayne Tyler, Jr., has assured Harvard of Tin Pan Alley immortality following the acceptance of his tune, "The Fighting Quartermaster Corps," as an official song for the unit for the duration...
...slicing machine, the War Production Board trimmed new layers of fat off the U.S. standard of living. Out for the duration went all the kitchen gadgets which modern housewives had substituted for grandma's elbow grease: electric toasters, waffle irons, mixers, dishwashers. Out went the nursery's tin soldiers and electric trains...
Giant U.S. Steel Corp. last week announced that it would soon perform a near-miracle: save critical tin supplies, make better and cheaper tinplate at the same time. The miracle-worker is a new process which plates by the electrolytic method instead of the old-fashioned dip method. To do the job, Big Steel is dishing out $15,500,000 of its own cash for new plants & equipment at Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham. Besides this, the company is installing six new lines to treat black plate (i.e., thin steel plate) chemically. When lacquered by can-makers, chemically treated black plate...
Although costing less than two destroyers, these new plants & lines will do a fleet's work for a tin-short U.S. When going full tilt in early 1943, they will save about 5,250 tons of tin annually. This equals 14% of the tin normally used in making all U.S. tin plate-enough to cover well over a billion tin cans...