Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busy Year. Without the Indies, Japan will never have all the oil, rubber and tin she needs, nor the power and prestige she thinks she needs to be a great empire. All Japan's plans are made with an eye on the Indies, and the Indies in one short year have become bristling porcupines of resistance...
...they woke up with a bang and got to work immediately without any ifs, ands or buts. Their alarm clock was Hubertus J. van Mook, Director of the Department of Economic Affairs. In the summer of 1940 the U.S. woke up to the fact that available stocks of tin and rubber would not last a full normal year. Mr. van Mook had the tin and rubber, and the U.S. had the guns and airplanes that he needed. They traded...
...Dutchman was in a tight spot. The Government was in the rubber and tin business, and so the answer that had worked with oil would not do this time. Minister van Mook, tongue in cheek, took refuge in "reasonableness." He announced that his Government would treat Japan as well as it treated Great Britain and the U.S., but could not treat it better because, after all, Britain was an ally and Japan was not. It was also reasonable to refuse to sell Japan more products than Japan could reasonably use for home consumption, since Germany, Japan's ally...
Armament production to protect East India rubber, tin, oil, is of immediate defense concern to the U.S. So is the fact that Universal's new, rapidly expanding rifle and machine-gun capacity could, in case of need, be turned to making guns for U.S. defense. Equally important, providing many a valuable lesson for other emergency producers, is the way Universal sped into production...
Because the U.S. is no more self-sufficient in giraffes, kangaroos and tapirs than it is in silk and tin, U.S. zoomen were greatly worried last week. Animal importations from Africa and Asia have dwindled with war's spread, now threaten to stop completely. Even South American animals are held up by lack of cargo space...