Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tin can doomed? American Can Co. last week got ready to produce a so-called fiber ersatz for the metal cans of which this company has hitherto been No. 1 U.S. manufacturer...
...Japanese were glutted with rubber, spices, tin-far & away more than they could use. The Japs now hold 7,500,000 of the world's 8,400,000 rubber-growing acres, many of them unscorched. Of this mountain of rubber they can put, at the most, about 15% to work. The Germans might use some of it, if there were any means of getting it to them...
...Japs are so eager to dispose of their rubber and tin surpluses that, according to one account, they are thinking of trying to sell them, through South American intermediaries, to a well-heeled onetime customer...
Last month a little tin box, no more than five inches around, arrived in the U.S. In it were 100 feet of microfilm-the photographed score of the Seventh Symphony. It had been carried by plane from Kuibyshev to Teheran, by auto from Teheran to Cairo, by plane from Cairo to New York. Photographers went to work printing from the film. In ten days they reproduced four fat volumes, 252 pages in all, of orchestral score...
Radio can send children searching for box tops to trade for tin whistles, or it can send them to the library to hunt good books; it can train them to expect a world in which a masked man on horseback holds off evil singlehanded, or it can train them to find and play their own role in society. Which type of program do American parents want? A woman who took part in the first children's program ever given in the U.S. has put out a slender book (All Children Listen; George W. Stewart; $1.50) calling on parents...