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...tin can doomed? American Can Co. last week got ready to produce a so-called fiber ersatz for the metal cans of which this company has hitherto been No. 1 U.S. manufacturer...
...Japanese were glutted with rubber, spices, tin-far & away more than they could use. The Japs now hold 7,500,000 of the world's 8,400,000 rubber-growing acres, many of them unscorched. Of this mountain of rubber they can put, at the most, about 15% to work. The Germans might use some of it, if there were any means of getting it to them...
...Japs are so eager to dispose of their rubber and tin surpluses that, according to one account, they are thinking of trying to sell them, through South American intermediaries, to a well-heeled onetime customer...
...cans save tin and iron for war uses. They can be made by the same machinery that makes tin cans, are cheaper than glass containers, which cost more than tin cans. But fiber cans are suitable chiefly for dry products like drugs, spices, powders. Since they cannot be used for processed foods which must be hermetically sealed, canmakers believe that after the war fiber cans will no more replace tin cans than zippers have replaced buttons...
Kazakhstan is the terminus of an ancient (and improved) silk and spice trail which, in the authors' opinion, has been even more important to China than the Burma Road. Kazakhstan is first in the Soviet Union in copper mining, second in tin and gold, third in coal and petroleum. In the south, kok-sagyz, a rubber-yielding dandelion, is Russia's No. 2 source for rubber...