TIN AND IRON.
COLLECTION FROM PUBLIC. MANY OTHER shortages. LONDON. January 3. Germany has exhausted 'her householders’ surplus supplies of iron utensils and of iron gates, railings and fences from public parks and gardens. Signposts, shop'window grilles, old lamp-posts, door knockers and othov household decorations and all tin articles are now being collected. Officialdom says the confiscation of those ornaments not only helps indusfryj hut also “improves the aesthetic appearance, of German towns and houses.” , Because, of the shortage of tin and sheetiron, receptacles formerly lined with tin are now painted inside with a special lacquer. Canning industrialists ■potest, stating that the slightest paint defect; will- inevitably cause shortage of fats has promoted processes to produce oil Hwn raisin seeds, tomatoes, horse-chestnuts and acorns • and synthetic edible fat is hetag dolirod f« coal- H» ? »“' <l that 40,000 tons of sebaceous acid can he extracted from GO,OOO tons ol paraffin.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 80, 15 January 1940, Page 8
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