Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those far-off lands mean little to the U. S.-except that thence come the major portion of the rubber and the tin on which the U. S. depends. There is no other present source from which the U. S. can get an adequate supply of these necessities, particularly rubber (see p. 73). With the prospect of victorious dictatorships in control of Europe, Asia and Africa, the U. S. would have to decide whether it could then afford to be cut off from its supply of these strategic materials. However the U. S. decision goes, it will be serious...
...fact that if the U. S. should find itself at war with Japan in the Far East it will be cut off from the Indies, and other Eastern areas, which produce 90% of the world's rubber, 50% of the world's tin, tungsten (21%), manganese (27%), quinine (95%), Manila fibre...
...only a run-down vacant lot on the edge of East Cambridge. Overgrown with weeds and tall grass, littered with broken bottles and rusty tin cans--hardly an inspiring sight. But add to this eyesore 235 play-hungry kids, a brigade of willing undergraduates, and a dash of cooperation from the City of Cambridge. Result: a recipe for civic improvement. A dash of cooperation? None is forthcoming. The local Park Board has contributed only an official frown...
...importance of the East Indies to the Allies is tremendous, as they provide petrol, tin, quinine, and rubber, all of them vital, he pointed out, and thus it is necessary for us to maintain a strong policy to keep Japan...
...month to Germany alone, has jeopardized another $35,000,000 a month in exports to the Allies, nearly equivalent losses of imports from Europe. To the U. S., Latin America is a great potential market for industrial products, a great potential source of needed raw materials (such as rubber, tin) whose usual sources (British Malaya, Dutch...