Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near East, that object will be all but accomplished. The pincers will close on Russia and China. Without supply they will almost inevitably succumb. The pincers will then be reversed to close in on Britain and the U.S. -both cut off by then from their war supplies of tin and rubber. The pincers would close first on the outposts of the Western Hemisphere (Britain and Australia), next on America itself. The Battle of the Hemispheres would be joined, with the U.S. on the short...
...plane program forced him to retract his previous reassurances and put aluminum, as well as machine tools, under the first full mandatory priorities. By year's end the defense demand had also elbowed civilian demand out of the market for copper, brass, nickel, tungsten, zinc, magnesium, tin, and even steel...
...Corronizing," a new metal-plating process, can cut by 50 to 90% the amounts of zinc and tin now used to galvanize and tin-plate iron and steel. With ordinary electroplating equipment, a thin film of nickel is first deposited on the metal, then a layer of zinc or tin much thinner than usual is added. Baking then fuses the two coats into an alloy whose exceptional resistance to rust and corrosion has already been demonstrated on wire screens, and on Sears, Roebuck's insecticide spray tanks. Even though small amounts of nickel are required, the net result...
...Tin Pan Alley has been hard at it since the U.S. entered the war, patching together patriotic songs. First number to hit the radio networks was sung by Eddie Cantor and Dinah Shore. It had been carpentered during a rehearsal of Cantor's show. Title: We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again...
...ground crews prepared to defend their field. Officers' families and 150 stenographers were sent out of the post. Since the field has only two gates, men climbed into heavy trucks, prepared to hole through the fence in case the gates were clogged by reinforcements. Gas masks and tin hats were issued, Springfield rifles were passed out. Anti-parachute troops stood by; mechanics formed machine-gun squads. To keep enemy planes from landing, trucks and jeeps were scattered about the runways. Fire equipment was broken out and a chemical unit formed to guard against gas attack...