Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European Russia would also ease Hitler's shortage of manganese, aluminum, lead and zinc-but not markedly. He would get little badly needed copper, nickel, tin or gold out of the Russian earth, but probably one of his greatest quick gains would be millions of tons of scrap metals, of many sorts, from wrecked Russian machinery and weapons...
...took up flying again, wangled his way back into the R.A.F. in 1939, within a few months became an ace and walked off first with the D.S.O., then the D.F.C. Said the officer who readmitted him to active service: "He rattles all over the place on his tin legs, gets 'em smashed and straightened out with a can opener and he's off again...
...damage: one of his duralumin legs crumpled. While his pretty wife and some friends drank a champagne toast to him "wherever he was," the Luftwaffe sent a message to the R.A.F. through the Red Cross offering safe passage to any British pilot who would fly over with a new tin...
...Leon Henderson, all he could do was go back to his office, announce more price ceilings, hope that by some miracle they would be obeyed. Last week he put ceilings on raw sugar, burlap, copper, pig tin, pine lumber. But bootlegging has put holes in Leon's previous ceilings and doubtless will continue to riddle his new ones...
...upon us are those in aluminum, magnesium, copper and nickel. There will be hardly enough aluminum to build the planes we know we'll need, let alone supply other military needs. . . . We have in this country only about a half-year's supply of rubber. . . . Wool and tin are also short. . . . The U.S. has little more than a thimbleful of high-grade chromite deposits from which to make ferrochrome, the master alloy in stainless and chrome steels. Supplies depend on the sea lanes and tons of chromite are already piling up in Rhodesia and New Caledonia for lack...