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Induction-heating by radio waves has come to the rescue of the tremendous program of tin-saving announced by U.S. Steel Corp. last spring (TIME, April 6). By electroplating tin on sheet steel, ½ lb. of tin may be spread over 100 lb. of steel. The old hot-dip process used 1½ lb. So $15 million worth of tin electroplating equipment was built, on the expectation that much tin used for U.S. tinplate would be saved. Nowhere before has electroplating been done on such an enormous production scale. Some single tinning lines turn out a continuous sheet three-feet...
Last month Glenn E. Stolz of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. announced an effective method of providing quick, localized heating by using a broadcasting set of enormous power that directs its energy at the surface of the sheet just where it is needed, melts the tin coating without affecting the steel base, and without any physical contact between the strip and the furnace to mar the tin...
...seamen, who were conducted to a survivors' camp below Murmansk, were housed in tin-roofed barracks, which resounded smartly to shrapnel all day long. When they first got there, they were inspected for injuries by Russian doctors, who administered vodka to the low in spirit. Haskell described the entire crew as low in spirit. They had been subjected to the horrors of one percent beverage in Iceland...
Every room in the University is a veritable storehouse of desperately needed rubber and scrap metal. That old tin wastebasket and the miniature rubber tire surrounding the ash-tray could certainly be put to better use in a jeep or Flying Fortress. Cloth scrap, especially silk, is also needed, and those old frayed shirts and ties will help. Since representatives have been appointed in every entry to take care of the donations, no great pains have to be taken to get rid of your scrap. If every student contributes just one pound of scrap, the country will be enriched...
...Berlin famous and deserving of much of his fame. It is his lack of self-criticism that really spoils his songs. Even Berlin's most devout followers can't deny that his tunes get repetitions. By itself the score of "Holiday Inn" is certainly above the average run of Tin Pan Alley drivel. But when you have already heard his output for the past twenty years--and who hasn't?--the score seems pale and derivative...