Arrangements were made by the military authorities for Mr. Goldin to be given a privileged passage on board a ship sailing to San Francisco, where it was arranged that he should call on the American War Department at Washington in November 1918.
Mr. Goidin's invention was too late for the last war.
He writes: "The great wave of pacifist sentiment which followed the horror of the war years meant that my invention did not interest anyone so 1 did nothing further about it. A few months ago, however, I decided that there was no point in wasting so valuable an idea and 1 wrote The rapid growth of the United Kingdom Canning Industry was well illustrated at the 41st Grocers' International Exhibition which recently opened at the Royal Agricultural Hall. There was an excellent display of tinned food to meet all the needs of the householder, and the employment of famous chefs to develop new recipes has resulted in a great improvement in the quality and flavour of the products supplied by United Kingdom Canneries. Since the Great War every single year has shown an increase in output, and the quantity of fruit and vegetables tinned in England is now about ten times as great as it was in 1920.
Food manufacturers in the United Kingdom have always prided themselves on the high quality and wholesomeness of their products and on the good condition in which they are preserved and sold. The Canning dustry must inevitably import some of its raw materials from abroad for certain popular lines, as these materials are not all procurable in the United Kingdom, owing to climatic and other conditions, but in spite of this, when foreign fruit and vegetables are tinned by well-known firms n the United Kingdom they are assured of a commanding place on the market, Enormous progress has been made recently in the science of food preservation and transport by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, an important section of whose work is devoted to the special problems of the canning industry. Almost everything edible ci now be found in tins, from whole hams and grouse to fish, beer, fruit kind. The this year, it is estimated, will need 1,600,000,000 tins of food, obtainable in no fewer than 55° varieties.
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