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Jean puts showmanship into her work. In a realm of slacks, grease-coated sweaters and tin hats, she scrambles up & down hull scaffoldings in swank feminine regalia. In the bedlam where tankers, invasion craft and baby flattops are put together she is "Hiyah, Jeannie" or "Hello, Journal.''' At the Albina yards she got another name-"The Hat." The hat is a high-crowned mink job, which she made herself...
...Germans had actually upset London's locaters, they might have done the trick with tin foil...
Over southeast England civilians were puzzled by long thin strips of paperbacked, shiny foil, which fell from German planes and twisted slowly earthward. Reportedly tin foil, first dropped by the British on European raids, embarrasses, plays hob with radar readings and night fighters' detection devices. The British have a name for the strips: "flutterers...
...unless imports increase or consumption decreases, there is little chance of adding to present stocks. Before the war, practically all U.S. tin requirements were supplied by the Malayan and East Indies mines. At present the U.S. receives tin from the high-cost Bolivian mines at the annual rate of 18,000 tons; and from a comparatively new source, the Belgian Congo, at the annual rate of 12,000 tons. A little more than 20,000 tons comes from reclaiming operations. Imports from China, French West Africa, and Mexico, coming in driblets, might be increased in the future...
Government sources asserted that the U.S. as yet has set no postwar policy on tin. But a four years' supply-and the new U.S. tin smelter in Texas, which has an annual capacity in excess of 50,000 tons- would make potent weapons in dealing with the international tin cartel...