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Herr Hitler also still got some 390,000 tons of Dutch oil, 3.000 tons of tin, large stocks of vegetable oils, whale oil, condensed milk. He appointed his Austrian yes man, Arthur Seyss Inquart, to govern the new prize. He gloated over the new springboard he had for a feat never accomplished, even by Napoleon, since William the Conqueror performed it in 1066: the invasion of Great Britain...
...different story was told by those strategic commodities (especially rubber & tin) of which the U. S. is short and may be shorter at the whim of Japan. Spot rubber held during the worst of the panic "at around 23?, ended the week down only 2∧ because of general liquidating pressure...
...Spot tin opened the week at 55?, closed...
...market for tin is the U. S., which consumed 70,265 of the 183,700 long tons produced in 1939. No. 1 producer is Britain's Malaya with 1939 exports of 55,945 tons, No. 2 The Netherlands East Indies with 31,281. Like rubber, tin is also controlled in production by a British dominated international cartel. British...
...curiosities of raw material exports were scrap tin and wood pulp, which the U. S. must buy abroad. Despite growing national concern over the lack of a domestic tin stockpile, U. S. exports of tin plate scrap were $19,872,000 for the quarter, up 361% from 1939. The quarter's exports of wood pulp, just before the outbreak of the Scandinavian war, jumped from 17,731 tons last year to 74,161 tons...