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...American taxpayer is weary of being gouged," said Senator Lyndon B. Johnson last week. Texas' Johnson was talking about the price of tin. Since Korea, tin had jumped 140% on New York's commodity markets, from 76 3/8? to $1.84 a lb., highest in history. Even in World War II, the U.S. kept a 52? ceiling on tin. This time, with much of the U.S. imports of 108,000 tons last year going into the stockpile or armaments production, the taxpayer has been footing the bill for the difference...
Depreciation of the Pith Helmet. The rubber boom and less spectacular booms in tin and pepper have bounced salaries and wages all along the line. The rich are spending their money on bigger and flashier cars (a Rolls-Royce is no rarity...
...work camps where immigrants are sent after their medical isolation, the complaints take the tune and pitch of national origins. In one camp of 250 tin huts at the edge of a fertile valley, Rachel Brill, a Rumanian woman, complained about the treatment given her son-in-law, Michael. Michael had degraded himself, was earning his living by building a house. (She omitted to say that his family would get the house.) "Imagine," she wailed in singsong Yiddish, "Michael, a shopkeeper, working with his hands! It would never happen in Rumania. What a country this is! There is nothing...
...larger house in our village in Yemen," she said, "but this one [and she pointed to a tin hut, empty except for a stack of blankets, a little stove and a big pot] is better. Rain makes more noise on the roof, but it doesn't come in. It's true we don't eat so much meat as we did, but there are other things I never dreamed of. Look at that little pipe by the road there. Water comes if you turn the top piece...
...Thin Tin. Weirton Steel Co. found a way to save tin in tin cans, thus help ease the critical tin shortage. A new plating process puts a thick layer of tin on one side of a steel sheet, a thin one on the other. Methods now in general use put the same thickness on both sides, although tin cans need the thick layer only on the inside. The new plating process, said Weirton President Thomas E. Millsop, will save at least 25% on tin...