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...less than 3% of it from express. Holland's K. L. M. carried almost ten times as much on a ton-mile basis as big Eastern Air Lines. T. A. C. A., lugging everything from pencils to mining machinery through Central America in antiquated Ford "tin geese," carried more than twice the freight load of all U. S. domestic lines...
Beef preserved in glass or tins is a chemical achievement. When the U. S. entered World War I, the problem of getting food across the Atlantic was as important as shipping men and arms. Meats were smoked, beef was boned, vegetables were dehydrated, vinegar was concentrated, fruits were dried, coffee was condensed into soluble cubes. A billion tin cans paved the way to France for the A. E. F. The job was done so well that U. S. soldiers gained in weight an average 12 lb. a man. These and many more facts are pointed out in Chemistry in Warfare...
...Harvard, members of a student "Committee for the Recognition of Classroom Generals" picketed (in gas masks) a class of interventionist History Teacher Paul P. Cram, sent tin soldiers and armchair professorial citations to five other professors. Meanwhile 34 members of the class of '17 sent a letter to the Crimson deploring undergraduate pacifism...
...predecessor for inefficiency and corruption. Britain's steel industry is run by the Steel Control Committee, a semi-Governmental carbon copy of the British Iron & Steel Federation. It allocates production quotas among mills in Britain, most of which are old and technologically out of date. In sheet and tin-plate capacity, there is only one modern, high-speed, continuous mill installed in all Britain. But that mill is reported to be operating at only two-thirds of capacity, while its rivals are busy as can be. Since the cartel is identified with the oldfashioned, high-cost mills, the question...
...much cheaper is this method that U. S. exporters began taking British business right under the cartel's nose, in spite of the tariff of the Ottawa agreements. So a few years ago ?20,000,000 Richard Thomas & Co., Ltd., the No. 1 British iron, sheet and tin-plate producer, decided to modernize. Its chairman, a forthright, anti-banker industrialist named Sir William John Firth, went to Pittsburgh and hired the experts of United Engineering & Foundry Co. to build him a continuous mill. They signed a contract for a giant (?8,500,000, 650,000 ton) rolling mill...