Other factors which curtailed the opportunity for profits included many years of low sardine catches and wartime scarcities of other raw materials such astinplateand oil.
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First, there is the class of raw materials like fuel, oil,tinplateand prime essentials.
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The conversion value, the total value of a tin of biscuits to the value of the amount oftinplatein that tin is twenty-one times.
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In the hardware and hollow-ware group of industries, which includes stoves, grates, bedsteads,tinplategoods, etc.
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Overshadowing all other problems—with regard to coal, building and industry generally—there is the cloud which has arisen in connection with the steel andtinplatetrade.
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Let me give some more to show in detail how this rather ridiculed export oftinplateis used to bring food here.
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The steel employer sells the tin-plate bar by weight, and you have to work thetinplatebars out at a certain weight per foot.
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He said that the increase intinplateprices would increase the price of canned food by ½p per tin.
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I am not talking about raw tin, but abouttinplate; that is, about what is put round so-called tin cans.
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Without sulphuric acid we cannot havetinplatebecause unless sheet steel is dipped in sulphuric acid it cannot be coated with tin.
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In the past eighteen months, fivetinplateand steel mills have closed down there, involving 1,700 people.
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Those materials aretinplate, horticultural cardboard used for making nonreturnable containers, and lids for returnable containers, lead foil and waxed paper.
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But perhaps the most vital and enterprising elements in thetinplateindustry are the independent firms.
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In addition, other countries that were previous importers oftinplateproduce at least part of their own needs.
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Let us ensure that the processing industry does not come to a standstill simply because we have exportedtinplate.
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