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...Corronizing," a new metal-plating process, can cut by 50 to 90% the amounts of zinc and tin now used to galvanize and tin-plate iron and steel. With ordinary electroplating equipment, a thin film of nickel is first deposited on the metal, then a layer of zinc or tin much thinner than usual is added. Baking then fuses the two coats into an alloy whose exceptional resistance to rust and corrosion has already been demonstrated on wire screens, and on Sears, Roebuck's insecticide spray tanks. Even though small amounts of nickel are required, the net result...
Paradise lies to the west. Across the mountains there is a rolling country of bamboo, rubber plantations, tin mines: a country divided by a network of good roads, cut up by rice paddies, full of people and not beasts. It is washed by the quiet Malacca Strait, sheltered by the long Island of Sumatra...
...ship's communication system. One plane is circling around. It's now at 300 or 400 yards, approaching us from the port side. It's coming closer headon, and I see a torpedo drop. A watcher shouts, 'Stand by for torpedo,' and the tin fish is streaking directly...
...characteristics of a fortress except arms. And a fleet of bombers, based upon the interior plateau, could dominate-if means could be found to supply them-every strategic point on the continent except the Panama Canal defense zone 2,000 miles to the north." Now top tin source for the U.S., Bolivia ordered added precautions against sabotage of U.S.-bound metals shipments...
...ground crews prepared to defend their field. Officers' families and 150 stenographers were sent out of the post. Since the field has only two gates, men climbed into heavy trucks, prepared to hole through the fence in case the gates were clogged by reinforcements. Gas masks and tin hats were issued, Springfield rifles were passed out. Anti-parachute troops stood by; mechanics formed machine-gun squads. To keep enemy planes from landing, trucks and jeeps were scattered about the runways. Fire equipment was broken out and a chemical unit formed to guard against gas attack...