Word: tin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolivian tin miners are tough and violent men. Last month a gang of miners with a vague and perhaps imaginary grievance dragged a member of the legislature from his house, strapped a stick of dynamite to his body, and blasted him to bits. When his pregnant wife came running out of the house waving a white handkerchief, a miner shot her to death...
...government. For the British, though, the territory is a familiar case of a small, impoverished colony longing to rule itself, yet unable to make ends meet. It has little to live on but cut-over mahogany forests, a few rice fields, and sugar cane and grapefruit plantations. In the tin-roofed capital of Belize, there are still no underground sewers or running water. British handouts take care of chronic trade deficits and keep the economy from collapse. But a fortnight ago, Britain was ready to grant British Honduras what so many other colonies have already been given. Self-government...
Jennie, with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz, is based on the career of Actress Laurette Tay lor. As the young Laurette, Mary Mar tin puts on one of her best and funniest performances, and Laurette's barnstorming early appearances in all manner of creaking melodramas are made-to-order for Mary's comic talents. She plays a frontier mother rescuing her child from a grizzly bear, warbles a ditty from a torture wheel, and as a harem wife be wails...
...temperature soared over 90° in Montreal last week, the 500 delegates and visitors to the fourth Faith and Or der Conference met for their general sessions in the ovenlike atmosphere of McGill University's metal-covered winter stadium. Delegates called the meetings "chats under a hot tin roof...
Expanding its plant at Cumberland, Md., Pittsburgh Plate Glass is setting up a "float process" that will produce high-quality plate by floating molten glass on a pool of molten tin. Since the process requires no expensive grinders, buffers or polishers, the company will be able to double productive capacity by adding only 100 men to its current work force...