Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herr Hitler also still got some 390,000 tons of Dutch oil, 3.000 tons of tin, large stocks of vegetable oils, whale oil, condensed milk. He appointed his Austrian yes man, Arthur Seyss Inquart, to govern the new prize. He gloated over the new springboard he had for a feat never accomplished, even by Napoleon, since William the Conqueror performed it in 1066: the invasion of Great Britain...
...across the Pacific many a U. S. businessman cast an uneasy mind's eye. For south and east from the foot of Thailand (Siam) across the Java Sea to Papua lie The Netherlands East Indies, whence the U. S. gets major portions of two strategic materials: rubber and tin. With The Netherlands at war, Japan might cut off that supply, alternatively might exploit a grab by controlling production, prices...
...Tin, a long way from being as indispensable as rubber, is also a less ugly picture from the supply side. No. 1 use (45% of consumption) of tin is for coating the cans in which U. S. citizens get their beans, their beer, their motor oil. Other uses are smaller percentagewise, but often less easily switched. Tin is indispensable for Babbitt metal and bronze used in aircraft and automobile engines...
...market for tin is the U. S., which consumed 70,265 of the 183,700 long tons produced in 1939. No. 1 producer is Britain's Malaya with 1939 exports of 55,945 tons, No. 2 The Netherlands East Indies with 31,281. Like rubber, tin is also controlled in production by a British dominated international cartel. British...
...curiosities of raw material exports were scrap tin and wood pulp, which the U. S. must buy abroad. Despite growing national concern over the lack of a domestic tin stockpile, U. S. exports of tin plate scrap were $19,872,000 for the quarter, up 361% from 1939. The quarter's exports of wood pulp, just before the outbreak of the Scandinavian war, jumped from 17,731 tons last year to 74,161 tons...