From: terrell.michael.a@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 2:16:28 PM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:   
   > In article , bow...@montana.com   
   > says...   
   > > > What makes you say they're doing that?   
   > > > I have never thrown away so much chinese junk....never did that with jap   
   > > > stuff....   
   > >   
   > > Didn't grow up in the '50s, did you? The Chinese can and do make high   
   > > quality products as well as cheap junk.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > I think Japan started putting out quality products to ship to the US   
   > when they ran out of all the American beer cans the GIs left over there   
   > from WW-2.   
      
   I thought that the aluminum can was introduced in the late '50s? (1858?)   
   During WW-II they were made of steel. I rember Pepsi in steel cans in the   
   early '60s.   
      
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