Word: tins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Iron Horse & Tin Goose...
These systems go through the Southwest where year-round transportation can be maintained easily. Elsewhere in the country the hurried traveler can splice his own air-&-rail way by hopping from iron horses to "tin geese" (see TIME...
...Strong Tin. No precious metal is tin, yet it is one of the rarest of the common metals. Tin deposits in British Malaya produce about 60,000 tons annually; Dutch East Indian deposits about 35,000, Bolivian about 40,000, Nigerian about 9,000 tons-total 143,000 tons. World production last year was only 159,135 tons. Metallurgists see no likelihood of new tin fields being soon discovered and many of the mines now being operated will run out just as the once-famed Cornish tin mines are now virtually exhausted. Meanwhile the demand for tin constantly increases, thus...
Consumption. Production of U. S. tin is negligible; but this country consumed (1928) 81,516 tons, or more than half the world's consumption. Tin is used mostly in combination with other metals. Most famed union is the copper-tin alloy bronze, from which was fashioned the short sword of the Roman Legions. Varying proportions of copper and tin give gun metal, bell metal, babbitt metal and many another alloy, the greater the percentage of tin the harder being the resulting composition. A tin and lead alloy is solder. Greatest use of tin (35% of total) is the making...
...Simon Patino, even greater Bolivian tin tycoon, is Minister to France...