Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High up in the thin, cold air of the Bolivian Andes, shrewd Mestizo Simón I. Patiño built for himself and his family an empire of tin. It was founded on the peon labor of mountain Indians whose lowly wage offset the high cost of transporting Patiño's ores to world markets. The mines Patiño developed from the original holding he acquired from a debt-ridden Portuguese made him one of the richest men in the world. But last week the manner in which he got his wealth returned, to plague...
Around Patiño's tin Bolivia grew; by tin, today, Patiño's empire and Bolivia's foreign trade must stand or fall. Symbols of Patiño's eminence are the three palaces he built, but never occupied, in the mountains. A symbol of the foundations on which his empire rests are silicosis-ridden miners who, when their health is shattered, creep back to their tribe's huts...
Premier General Hideki Tojo, on the anniversary of the Italian-German declarations of war upon the U.S., boasted that rubber, tin and other resources captured in the South Pacific were being used effectively to prosecute the war. "I think it a pleasure," said he, "that we can contribute these resources to Germany and Italy...
Induction-heating by radio waves has come to the rescue of the tremendous program of tin-saving announced by U.S. Steel Corp. last spring (TIME, April 6). By electroplating tin on sheet steel, ½ lb. of tin may be spread over 100 lb. of steel. The old hot-dip process used 1½ lb. So $15 million worth of tin electroplating equipment was built, on the expectation that much tin used for U.S. tinplate would be saved. Nowhere before has electroplating been done on such an enormous production scale. Some single tinning lines turn out a continuous sheet three-feet...
Last month Glenn E. Stolz of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. announced an effective method of providing quick, localized heating by using a broadcasting set of enormous power that directs its energy at the surface of the sheet just where it is needed, melts the tin coating without affecting the steel base, and without any physical contact between the strip and the furnace to mar the tin...