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...through his horn-rimmed spectacles for strategic materials tied up in railroad yards, warehouses, backyards. By last week he had almost finished. On his desk, hundreds of pink slips showed such "frozen" items as 20,000,000 lb. of copper sheets, ingots, wire, etc., 27,500,000 lb. of tin plate and 4,000,000 lb. of pig tin, "vast quantities" of rubber, silk, wool, hides, chemicals...
...Premier of Burma, The Honorable U Saw,* was visiting the West for the first time. With him was his little Oxford-trained secretary, U Tin...
...Until defense interfered, Alcoa was busy on the cigaret foil market, claims the tobacco industry could save $500,000 a year in freight costs by using aluminum foil instead of tin. Aluminum beer kegs are already used by Ballantine and others...
Bolivia is "a kind of 'company town' of the tin merchants," dominated by the Army. The character of most Bolivians, says Gunther, varies from apathy "almost to the point of physical numbness, to an intense nervous irritability." Most Bolivians are illiterate, "grindingly, intolerably poor...
...CASE OF THE EMPTY TIN-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). A code scratched on a tin can in the dusty corner of a California cellar gives Perry Mason his first clue in a case of double murder. Departs in many ways from the familiar Mason formula-and is much the better...