Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certain areas where it hadn't started. One of those areas is a place called the Pacific Ocean-one of the largest areas of the earth. . . . There happened to be a place in the South Pacific where we had to get a lot of things-rubber, tin, and so forth and so on, down in the Dutch Indies, the Straits Settlements and Indo-China. And we had to get the Australian surplus of meat and wheat and corn for England...
Organizer and leader of the band is Sergeant Herbert Bernfeld, who as Herbie Fields used to play tenor saxophone and clarinet in Raymond Scott's Quintet. Among the band's 14 other members. Tin Pan Alleymen all, are Private Morton Kahn, who led and pounded the piano in Gerry Morton's Society Band; Private Don Matteson, trombonist for Jimmy Dorsey; Private James Morreale, Paul Whiteman trumpeter; Private Sidney Macey, the late Hal Kemp's arranger and trumpeter...
...needs), tin (20% of peacetime needs), aluminum, lead, mercury and phosphorus (almost none), rubber (none). Of such important alloy metals as antimony, chrome, nickel, manganese and tungsten, Japan produces scarcely...
...have stuck. His office helped OPACS draw up a rubber-conservation agreement under which manufacturers will cut consumption from 817,000 to 600,000 tons a year by using more reclaimed rubber, eliminating white sidewall tires (which take 2 lb. more rubber), etc. He persuaded manufacturers to quit using tin in oil and paint cans, use less tin and more lead in tubes for shaving and cold creams. This helped cut U.S. tin consumption by 10,000 tons (about 10%) a year. He figures that about 400,000 tons of shipping a year from the Far East was saved...
...since 1934 to accumulate about 42,000 tons of silver (besides the 46,800 tons monetized) which lie unused in vaults. Last week the National Academy of Sciences suggested that OPM put some of this expensive luxury to work for defense by substituting it for tin in solder. This would not affect the price of solder because a blend of 2½% silver and 97½% lead gives about the same results as the standard mixture of half tin and half lead. It would save around 18,000 tons of tin-almost 20% of U.S. 1940 consumption...