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Tinless Cans. Reynolds Metals Co. announced two ways to make cans without using scarce tin. One method uses heavy aluminum foil coated with plastic material; the other uses steel coated on either side with aluminum. Price: "very competitive" with tin cans...
...Nashville is neither much surprised nor much disturbed. The Tennesseans have welcomed such pop singers as Margaret Whiting, Evelyn Knight and the Andrews Sisters, who have hurried on down to the folk-singing capital to ply their trade. Nashville even furnishes the visitors local side men to give their Tin Pan Alley products the authentic Nashville flavor. Meanwhile, the local boys keep right on plugging their own songs and singers...
Handy Around the House. In Chicago, seeking a divorce, Mrs. Dorothy Lokes explained to the judge what she meant by cruelty: her husband rigged tin cans around the door, then when she tripped the trap, he woke up and thrashed her for being late...
...took a moment for returning white men to recognize the little town on the Sulu Sea. All the wood-framed, tin-roofed, prewar houses were gone; sleazy palm-leaf shacks swayed in their places. The flies were thicker, the natives were thinner; only the charring equatorial heat was the same. Nevertheless, Harry and Agnes Keith were glad to be back. Before war and Japanese prison camps, the "dirty, stinking little town" of Sandakan, British North Borneo, was home...
Symington thinks the new price fair until the joint commission unscrambles the tin producers' arithmetic and discovers the true cost of producing tin. Symington's tough policy has been felt in the world tin market; this week tin hit $1.02 in Malaya. In a year, Symington thinks that, under the RFC's tough price policy, the U.S. will save $500 million on tin alone. The fight also served notice on all the raw-material-producing countries of the world that the U.S. is willing to pay a fair price for materials, but that...