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Word: tinned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frozen Justice (Fox). Melodramas like this, arranged against backgrounds of snow and wintry seas, have been fine vehicles for that smart dog, Rin Tin Tin. Lenore Ulric is nicer to look at than

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Cans: The Continental Can Co. Current assets, $26,500,000: 30 plants throughout the U. S. the largest being in Baltimore and Chicago: second largest U. S. manufacturer of tin cans. 1928 net: $6,690,796. Chief competitor: American Can, whose most famed stockholder is George Fisher Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bottles & Cans | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Continental Chronicle. Neither ancient nor humble were the Continental Can beginnings. In 1913 three sizable companies-Continental Can of New Jersey, Export and Domestic Can of New York, and Standard Tin Plate of Pennsylvania-combined to form Continental Can Co., Inc. During the next 13 years the company prospered but only in 1926 did Continental Can begin absorbing smaller companies with the steady monotony of an expanding corporation. In the last three years the company has acquired 14 manufacturers scattered over the country. Some of these make tin plate (sheet iron plated with tin) from which cans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bottles & Cans | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

What is really important is the fact that Messrs. Lardner and Kaufman show themselves to be irreverent Boswells of Tin Pan Alley. They know, for instance, all about its soiled, impertinent goddesses. One of these creatures, played with frightening rancor by Jean Dixon, scourges her husband with wisecracks because his "Paprika, You're the Spice of My Life" is the only song hit he has written in three years. "That's the place for you," she says, upon learning that the Hall of Fame is devoted to "Busts." When he sings her his new "Montana Moon" she stares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...when War was declared, received a lieutenant's commission in the naval air forces. Sent overseas, he organized naval air stations in England, France, Italy, won from the Italian government the Brevetto Superiore. After the War came another copper interlude, also the development of Chilean nitrate and Bolivian tin. But he was now engaged in the financial and business side of mining rather than the engineering, and finance did not so much appeal to him. When Chile Copper Co. was sold to Anaconda, he came back to the U. S., built himself his fine Norman manor on Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Copper & Air Man | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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