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Giant U.S. Steel Corp. last week announced that it would soon perform a near-miracle: save critical tin supplies, make better and cheaper tinplate at the same time. The miracle-worker is a new process which plates by the electrolytic method instead of the old-fashioned dip method. To do the job, Big Steel is dishing out $15,500,000 of its own cash for new plants & equipment at Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham. Besides this, the company is installing six new lines to treat black plate (i.e., thin steel plate) chemically. When lacquered by can-makers, chemically treated black plate...
Although costing less than two destroyers, these new plants & lines will do a fleet's work for a tin-short U.S. When going full tilt in early 1943, they will save about 5,250 tons of tin annually. This equals 14% of the tin normally used in making all U.S. tin plate-enough to cover well over a billion tin cans...
...fashioned W. C. Handy type of blues, Blues in the Night promises to take its place beside St. Louis Blues as a classic. Unlike the Handy songs, it did not spring from Mississippi Valley soil, but was machined to order for a Warner Brothers movie by two Tin Pan Alley veterans. Curly-haired Harold Arlen, composer of the unforgettable Stormy Weather, did the music; 32-year-old Johnny Mercer, the words. After hearing the song, the Warners promptly changed the film's title from New Orleans Blues to Blues in the Night. Since November, 14 recordings of Blues...
...problem of decently but inexpensively housing the thousands of Washington working girls, the President recalled how he had lived as a schoolboy at Groton-in cubicles with 8-ft. partitions, a bed, bureau, curtained cupboard, with a common washroom down the hall, with showers and toilets and 20 tin basins and 20 tooth-mugs in a row. This recollection looked good to the President. Said he: Why not build such dormitories smack on Washington's beautiful Mall, a 13-block-long stretch of greensward in the heart of town. Charge the girls, say, 50 cents...
...Honey was listed among the 14 essential foods which may be packed in tin cans (5 lb.-size and bigger) in unlimited quantities...