Word: canning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adventure toward the equator. If the Japanese were to accomplish their much-vaunted New Order in this area, U. S. economy might be severely dislocated. Materials for a range of products all the way from tires to electric-light filaments, from tea to teak, from tin for canning to quinine for malaria, would become drastically scarce in the U. S. until substitutes could be produced in sufficient quantities. What the U. S. can do about it is limited by the fact that the East Indies lie some 2,000 miles outside the arc of effective U. S. operations. Furthermore...
...whispering, hard-hitting Bill Thompson, 60, sent them to California for processing and packing. California packers condemned twelve carloads. Roaring "To hell with that-we'll can 'em ourselves," Bill Thompson and his fellow Astorians put in $500,000 worth of new tuna-canning equipment...
Under that understanding Britain, with her world empire, kept the seas open and safe-all that U. S. commerce could ask. Actually conceived by Foreign Secretary George Canning, the Monroe Doctrine had been made a workable arrangement-for that Doctrine was in fact a deal. In 1823 Canning agreed with President Monroe that Europe should not attempt to extend her holdings in the Western Hemisphere. With the backing of Britain, it became practical for the U. S. to insure its own security by preventing any other power from expanding in the Western Hemisphere. To all intents Britain had abdicated...
...state that Erne Canning Carlton, writer of Rock-a-Bye Baby, "turned many a penny from its royalties...
...Composer Erne Canning Carlton earned an estimated $20,000 from Rock-a-Bye Baby. During her last seven years she was saved from destitution by a $50-a-month gift from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (of which she was never a member). ASCAP also paid her hospital and funeral expenses; its president, Gene Buck, sent the largest floral piece to her funeral. Second largest was from the Hoboes of America. Its inscription: "To Our Beloved Friend...