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...annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...
Patiño Tin. Though he would be the last to admit it. Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. is indirectly one of the biggest contributors to the Bolivian cause in the Gran Chaco War. The Bolivian Government finances the war with a "patriotic" tax on exports; Bolivia's biggest export is tin produced by Patiño Mines & Enterprises Consolidated, Inc.; the hungriest consumer of Simon Patiño's tin is the U.S. and in the U.S. the second biggest buyer of the bluish-white metal is Mr. Cornish. Long allied with Senor Pati...
Cliff Day had gaveled for order; a collection of $600 in nickels and dimes had been taken up in a tin wastepaper basket to pay for the hall; an Alabaman had made it clear that "this trip is of our own planning" and a South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore...
Hero of U. S. air transport from infancy to maturity was the trimotored Ford. Today fast low-wing Boeings, Douglases and Lockheeds have displaced the "Tin Goose" on most U. S. airlines, and many of the 200-odd Ford tri-motors have gone to South America. Of all the "Tin Geese," none was more familiar to U. S. citizens than the one which for five years has been displayed in the concourse of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station...
Profitable though National Steel has been through the lean years, it will not be so conspicuous when & if real recovery comes to the steel industry. It has prospered through amazing management and strategic plant location, plus the fact that a large part of its output goes into tin cans and automobiles-both steady customers, good years & bad. And it will get more than its share of future prosperity. But U. S. Steel, whose presidency Ernest Tener Weir reportedly refused, can make much more money in a single year than the sum of National Steel's assets...