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...Knut Hamsun's rare breaks in the U.S.; in 1888, he returned to Norway to write of his disenchantment with the U.S. of booming stockyards and cornlands. He had found no cultural life in the U.S., only "prudishness, self-complacent ignorance," and "patriotism engendered by tin fifes...
...Tin...
Oogie Oogie Wa Wa (Debbie Reynolds; M-G-M). According to Tin Pan Alley linguists, the title is Eskimo for "I want a mama." A fast-tempo piece of foolishness, well sung...
Britain will get steel-1,000,000 tons of it-in return for 20,000 tons of Malayan tin ore and 55 million pounds of Canadian aluminum. The U.S. will buy the tin outright at $1.18 a pound, f.o.b. Singapore. The aluminum will be sold by Canada*with the understanding that the same quantity will be sold back by mid-1953, when U.S. plants will have expanded enough to ease the present shortage...
...tin price was a compromise. The U.S. wanted to pay $1.12; the British producers wanted $1.25. Since Malaya produces 34% of the world's tin, the new price may well establish the price pattern for Bolivian and Indonesian metal. In any case, the new flow of tin from Malaya will ease the drain on the U.S. stockpile...