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Show Canning Industry Immense How important the canning industry indus-try has become may be seen In the fact that the number of cans of food produced has increased from about 5,000,000 yearly at the close of the Civil war to S,500,000,000 In 1927. Probably Prob-ably the figures for 192S, when completed, com-pleted, will run somewhere near the nine billion mark, for tin plate companies com-panies are operating at an unusually unusual-ly high rates and have broken all records rec-ords for the amount of tin plate produced. pro-duced. i |