Description
In 1975, Jack Carmichael of the Ball Corporation, a major manufacturer of glass home-canning jars, sent this packet of information to Representative
Philip Sharp. Carmichael suggested that Sharp use it as a resource to answer constituent questions about the canning lid shortage. After tinplate scarcity curbed the production of canning lids, manufacturers were unable to meet the demand of the farmers and gardeners who preserved their produce at home in glass jars with tin lids. Carmichael’s packet included articles published in the
National Observer and
U.S. News & World Report, as well as remarks by Senator
Charles Mathias printed in the
Congressional Record. Representative Sharp shared the packet with others, as the handwritten note on his letterhead indicated.
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