Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican candidate, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, had been a Democrat until the day before his nomination. Now, with the added blessings of the Liberal and Fusion Parties, grey-haired Judge Goldstein was belaboring Democrats right & left. Nightly he cried that "Tammany's tin-box boys" were fixing to loot the city. Mild-mannered Judge Goldstein had once been secretary to arch-Democrat Al Smith. He now had the backing of another Governor: Tom Dewey...
From the War Production Board last week came an alarmed report: U.S. stocks and importations of tin are so low that they may be nonexistent by the end of 1946. Since tin is vital to a host of industries, this might hobble reconversion. So WPB intends to keep a tight control over tin until large-scale importations from the Far East are resumed...
...report, WPB explained that on last July 1 the U.S. had a total tin stockpile of only 95,572 tons. (1944 consumption: 89,500 tons.) During the first six months of 1945, tin was disappearing at "an even greater rate." War's end did not help: as military demand lessened, civilian demand soared. Warned WPB: unrestricted consumption "might easily reach a 120,000-ton rate and [exhaust] reserve stocks in a very short period...
...Manhattan, Tin Pan Alleysmiths Shapiro-Bernstein heard a recording of Jilted Love in 1938, hired Songwriter Lew Brown to write some words that would bounce like the music. Result: the Polka's now familiar "Roll out the barrel" lyrics...
Some open-pit mining of tin ore can be resumed as soon as the Japs move...