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...replace the 1.6% of a tin can which is really war-precious tin, two new substitutes have recently been developed. Both are nonmetallic, both are practical, but neither is yet in commercial production. When they are, these organic materials (and others like them) may well replace the thin tin film on cans even after the wartime need for substitutes has passed...
Even so, WPB is still nervous about paperboard. No one can tell what huge new demands will grow out of peak war production. The packaging industry has not yet converted from tin to paper. WPB therefore instructed salvage committees to be "very careful to leave the door open for resuming paper collections...
While Beaufighters tangled with the Messerschmitts, torpedo carriers bored in on the Eugen. At least one tin fish got home, struck her fairly. A "great pillar of dirty black smoke" gushed from her superstructure and she shuddered under two mighty explosions. In the hurlyburly, Beaufighters swung down out of the sky, plastered the destroyers with bomb and machine gun and the force streaked for home. The British reported losing nine planes, knocking down five Germans. Said Berlin: "Unsuccessful-British losses 29 planes...
...Home Guard had not always been respectable. It rose like a garish, un-British emanation from the bomb rubble of 1940's blitz. In those days its members practiced slitting throats with cheese cutters on gloomy Sunday mornings, reached out eager hands for nonexistent tommy guns, concocted tin-can explosives in the basement and took a desperate delight in the macabre techniques of Spanish Civil War guerrillas. But by last week the Home Guard had dressed ranks and counted off: on its second birthday, King George VI himself, the trade-mark of British character, became the Home Guard...
canmaker, cut its second-quarter payment 50% to 25?, blamed it on the loss of civilian can business (because of the tin shortage) and on higher taxes...