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...have stuck. His office helped OPACS draw up a rubber-conservation agreement under which manufacturers will cut consumption from 817,000 to 600,000 tons a year by using more reclaimed rubber, eliminating white sidewall tires (which take 2 lb. more rubber), etc. He persuaded manufacturers to quit using tin in oil and paint cans, use less tin and more lead in tubes for shaving and cold creams. This helped cut U.S. tin consumption by 10,000 tons (about 10%) a year. He figures that about 400,000 tons of shipping a year from the Far East was saved...
...Tin Pan Alley did its bit for China by contributing a theme song for United China Relief. Three of the Alley's top tunesters (Composer Arthur Schwartz, Lyricists Edward "Yip" Harburg and Ira Gershwin) wrote Honorable Moon in one evening and Radio Singer Connie Boswell launched the song on a national hookup last week. Refrain...
...since 1934 to accumulate about 42,000 tons of silver (besides the 46,800 tons monetized) which lie unused in vaults. Last week the National Academy of Sciences suggested that OPM put some of this expensive luxury to work for defense by substituting it for tin in solder. This would not affect the price of solder because a blend of 2½% silver and 97½% lead gives about the same results as the standard mixture of half tin and half lead. It would save around 18,000 tons of tin-almost 20% of U.S. 1940 consumption...
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...Under "a mild form" of inventory control were 15 other metals: antimony, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, ferrous alloys, iridium, iron & steel products, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nonferrous alloys, tin, vanadium. Users of these must file statements monthly that they are not increasing their inventories...