Word: tinning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reasons: dehydrating cuts shipping space and weight an average of 90% (12½ gallons of vegetable soup, enough for 200 soldiers, can come out of a 2-½ gallon container of dry soup mix); treated paper and cardboard containers suitable for dehydrated goods save tin, can be easily destroyed in emergency so as not to fall into enemy hands; comparatively few workers are needed in dehydration plants; if dried foods had been used in the first year of Lend-Lease shipments, the equivalent of eighty 10,000-ton ships would have been spared for other duties...
...with deadly organisms: these died or remained dormant. The meat lost some protein value in the drying. In the dehydration, the meat is exposed to great heat, practically precooked, then put into dry air to drive off at least 90% of the moisture. It must be vacuum-packed in tin cans until other packaging can be found. To reconvert the dry, powdery meat, it is soaked in water for an hour, boiled ten minutes, simmered for 10-20 minutes...
Trouble at Home. Besides, President Rios had more exclusively Chilean problems to think about. Victim of an acute war-born economic crisis, Chile suffers severe shortages in gasoline, tin plate, rubber, steel. Since 1941 the cost of living has gone up 39%. With no palliating wage increases, labor grows daily surlier...
Bill Batt's good word about the smelter brought to mind some minor bad news from Bolivia. Now that the Japs have cornered 90% of the world's tin supply Bolivia has regretted the 50? a lb. delivered price that looked so good before Pearl Harbor. Bolivia is now talking 60? at the embarkation point. Before the war high grade Straits tin...
Nothing Bolivia and Jesse Jones's smelter can do can solve the U.S. tin shortage. Though the U.S. has "a sizable stockpile," Batt pointed out, it can look forward to no more than 18,000 tons a year from Bolivia-about one-fifth of the nation's normal peacetime consumption. Ergo, said Batt, "glass and fiber containers are going to have to replace tin to a large extent for civilian...