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Voice of the Layman. No artist, scientist or professor is dark, energetic David Silberman, born 49 years ago on Manhattan's teeming lower East Side. David Silberman is a man with a flair for developing machinery. President of the Cap-Tin Development Corp., he employs 75 to 100 people and makes about $1,000,000 worth of zippers per year in 10,000 square feet of space at 578 Broadway...
...know," he snapped, "that Chevrolet salesmen take prospects over to a Ford salesroom and slam a car door. When it sounds like this they just say 'see, tin,' then take them back and sell them a Chevrolet...
...tin would reach only half its pre-war production 18 months from now. By last week a few European managers and mining engineers had drifted back to Malaya. Manpower, siphoned off by the Japs for war jobs, was still short, although returning coolies were doing preliminary chores around the mines...
Wrecked Dredges. But the real problem was the restoration or replacement of Malaya's 126 dredges, which are used to scoop up alluvial deposits, where much tin is found. All of these machines, badly handled by the Japs, are in varying states of disrepair. Thirty-nine of them will have to be completely replaced, which will take two years. Of the rest, only 41 will be in operation by next August while the 46 others will not be back in service until June 1947. Thus it will be from three to four years before the industry hits its full...
There is still more than a year's supply (95,000 tons) of tin on hand in the U.S. But industry is already feeling the pinch. Example: auto men have had to redesign motor parts to cut the use of tin from four...