| Show TWELVE BILLION TIN CANS A YEAR tin cans gome ot them annually take to market and american homes a vast variety oi products they constitute the product of one of Amerl caB great industries which used in 1933 for instance more steel than buildings or railroads or any other deteel customer except the automobile industry there are about a hundred cans produced in this country for each man woman and child and only some 60 per cent of them are used or food the origin of the tin can goes back to nicolas appert a frenchman who developed a method of preserving food in 1804 it wai ei sent lally the method used today heating the food and putting it sealed |
