Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jesse Jones was asked to get started on a 130,000-ton synthetic rubber program. A year later he had contracted for only a third of this requirement, and then only on an experimental basis. By 1944 Jones still won't have produced the required amount of rubber. With tin, it's the same story. He knew what the requirements were but never purchased the necessary stockpiles...
Bali Down. The dream faded fast. At Java's western tip, beyond the Sunda Strait, the Japanese clinched their hold on southern Sumatra, its oil, its tin, and its vantage for assault on Java. To the east, Japanese planes performed their usual preparatory ritual: bombs on Dutch and Portuguese Timor, more bombs on oft-bombed Surabaya's naval base; bombs on Bali; and, to the rear, where Australia juts toward Java, bomb after heavy bomb on the tiny, tinny port of Darwin...
...other new appointment to the War Cabinet was that of spruce, red-haired Oliver Lyttelton as Minister of State, concerned with production. Onetime organizer of the world tin cartel, he replaced Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook, who was detailed to Washington as production liaison officer...
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These dried foods in mass production will be 20% cheaper than ordinary foods, because they need not be graded for size or selected for beauty or packed in tin; and shipping and handling is simplified. When water is added and the food warmed up (not cooked again), it is best served, of course, as sauces, soups, pie fillings, etc. Food powders make good mashed potatoes-far better than the dark, gooey "shoeblack" potatoes dehydrated for the U.S. Army in World War I by some 15 processors, few of whom, with their crude techniques, survived the peace.* Though Army quartermasters...