Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no satisfactory substitute for tin. It is a basic ingredient of tin cans, solder, bronze, collapsible tubes, foil, galvanized iron, a hundred other items. This week the U.S. took a big step toward fattening its thin stockpile of the metal...
...Metals Reserve Company was ready to sign a contract, calling for delivery of 17,600 long tons of tin concentrates, with second-string Tin King Mauricio Hochschild and all the other Bolivian tin men except the biggest operator of them all, Simon Patino, who is solidly tied up with Britain...
...tonnage, roughly a quarter of expected U.S. consumption for 1946, was a prize few other countries wanted. The ore is low grade, needs special smelting to produce pig tin. But the U.S. has just such a smelter at Texas City, Texas. The U.S. problem was not refining the ore, but getting more...
Nearby filling-station attendants complained that their washrooms were clogged with naked Witnesses taking sponge baths. Mechanics sweated without charge over the creaking chariots of fellow zealots. Free haircuts were dispensed by an amateur barber who was thoughtful enough to bring along an electric clipper. Payless chefs, cooking in tin-plated oil drums and 600-gallon kettles, ladled out 75,000 meals...
...worst. Like all the island's north coast the city of Matanzas got a hard jolting. But the tidal wave that followed the shock was the real killer as it swept into town and village. In one place, 40 cockfight fans were trapped under the collapsing tin roof of their circular pit and then drowned by the rush of water. Elsewhere, the nimble skipped to trees and rooftops. In Ciudad Trujillo, where people were celebrating the 450th anniversary of the city's founding by Columbus' brother, five churches were damaged and ordered closed...