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...metal, silver started as a substitute for tin, copper and other critical metals, was soon found superior to them in many ways. Silver has many ideal properties: it resists corrosion better than any other metal, is little affected by atmospheric conditions, is extremely malleable, and is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. Some of its uses...
...solder (lead and 2½% silver), which has been found cheaper and stronger than tin solder...
...Silver may be a postwar threat to the tin can. It resists the corrosive and bacterial action of food better than tin; if experiments with an electroplating process for making silver linings are successful, silver may soon compete with tin in cost. These and other silvery possibilities gleam in metallurgical eyes. But silver is a die-hard political issue. Chief obstacle to plans to put U.S. silver to work is the artificially high price (71.1? an oz. v. 35? in the open world market) fixed by Congress under the influence of the silver bloc...
...made some 300 disks. As an experiment, Okeh issued Peer's recordings, listing them in a special catalogue similar to those used for foreign language and "race" records. Within a few years Okeh's hillbilly list sold over a million disks-mostly below the Mason-Dixon line. Tin Pan Alley still paid no attention...
...Freddie. The rage has taken a good part of U.S. song writing out of the hands of Tin Pan Alley's veterans. Almost any simple soul might write hillbilly words and the composition of hillbilly music has always been regarded by Tin Pan Alley as a variety of unskilled labor, Chief among the newcomers are Texas-born Al Dexter (Pistol Packin' Mama), Indiana-born Freddie Rose (Low & Lonely, I'll Reap My Harvest in Heaven), the Carter Family of Bristol, Va. (I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes), Texas-born Bob Wills (New San Antonio...