U.S.A.'S BIG WAR ORDER
£21,000,000 WORTH OF TIN FROM BRITISH EMPIRE An order for £21,000,000 "worth of tin has been received from .tlie United States by "the great smelters of Mai a.y a and of Bottle, in Lancashire. The United States is laying up, over the next ten months, a strater gic reserve of 75,000 tons of tin, in addition to her normal industrial requirements. The Avar is steadily increasing the demand for tin, for use in machine tools, guns, explosive containers and for tetrachloride in smoke screens, Tn the last war the United States tried smelting and failed: tin ore, unlike many other ores, has a complicated smelting technique and the virtual monopoly of it by the British Empire gives Britain a powers ful position in the world export markets. The Romans called the British Isles the Tin Islands: they remain that to-day, using smelting methods that have been developed over two thousand years.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 214, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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155U.S.A.'S BIG WAR ORDER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 214, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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