Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier of Burma, The Honorable U Saw,* was visiting the West for the first time. With him was his little Oxford-trained secretary, U Tin...
...Until defense interfered, Alcoa was busy on the cigaret foil market, claims the tobacco industry could save $500,000 a year in freight costs by using aluminum foil instead of tin. Aluminum beer kegs are already used by Ballantine and others...
Bolivia is "a kind of 'company town' of the tin merchants," dominated by the Army. The character of most Bolivians, says Gunther, varies from apathy "almost to the point of physical numbness, to an intense nervous irritability." Most Bolivians are illiterate, "grindingly, intolerably poor...
...Priorities Chief Donald Nelson last week told a Congressional committee that 1,378,000 Ib. of copper, some of it "undoubtedly Axis-owned," lay in U.S. warehouses, untouchable despite the acute copper shortage. Not only will that copper now be requisitioned, but also carloads of machinery, steel, silk, rubber, tin plate, manganese and other hoarded, hidden and frozen inventories. Economic Defense Board and OPM agents combed New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco freight yards for them last week (TIME...
...Isthmian Steamship Co.'s Black Eagle was probably halfway from Manila to Honolulu when the Navy's order came, at once made haste under forced draught. Loaded to the scuppers with rubber, tin, other strategic materials, she would be a fat prize in anyone...