Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many other people who feel as I do ... we are saving our tin cans, our collapsible metal tubes, our rubber, our waste paper, our scrap metal. . . . We're doing easily with less sugar than our ration card will buy. . . . We're not hoarding anything...
Whether the article is synthetic or real, however, makes no difference to the canvasser, but paper and tin cans are not wanted. Old paper is useless, and no facilities have been arranged to take care of the tin cans. The University has made an agreement with local bottling companies whereby all its tin is being turned into bottle caps. Before the government will accept old tin cans the donators must have them pressed into solid packs to facilitate shipment...
...John Carroll prefers women to barns, feels that good art is seldom inspired by current events or political ideas. A painter's job, he believes, is to idealize his subjects. "If I wanted to paint a picnic scene," he says, "instead of showing a picnic site littered with tin cans and bottles and rubbish, I would paint something that would make the spectator want to go on a picnic...
...Service Committee Wednesday and Thursday for any rubber, metal, old clothes and cloth, used phonograph records, or musical instruments which they would like to contribute to Harvard's scrap drive. After the drive entry representatives will continue to relieve students of any scrap they may have, but paper and tin cans are not wanted at present...
...Facts. The principal argument against Henry Kaiser's big idea (with which few citizens disagreed in principle) was the raw-material shortage. Resourceful Henry Kaiser might use the chrome in California soil, tin from Nevada, but he did not convince WPB of his ability to get all his needed metals. Fact is that part of the Army's combat-plane program is already lagging for lack of raw materials. Donald Nelson promised Kaiser "plenty of action." if-a big "if"-it can be proved that the Kaiser dream will not cut into the combat-plane program...