Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomatic immunity. The Customs men communicated with the State Department, which verified their belief that diplomatic immunity is granted only to ambassadors or ministers and their wives, not to vice-consular ladies. Promptly the agents broke the seals, opened the trunks, lifted out laces, silks, and many a small tin box. The tin boxes contained a substance which the Customs men instantly recognized as opium?about $600,000 worth at current U. S. prices...
Young Mrs. Kao, high born and college-bred, daughter of the Chinese Minister to Cuba, expressed polite surprise. The tin boxes, she explained, had been placed in her trunks by influential friends in China, to be carried as gifts to other influential friends in the U. S. Asked who these friends were, she refused to tell. She would be killed surely if she did, she said. She had no explanation at all about some documents which, found with the opium and translated, indicated that she was to have received $23,000 upon delivering the tins to the "influential friends...
When a U. S. woman buys silk stockings, she frequently purchases some tin along with the silk. How much tin she is buying she cannot know, for there is no standard way of testing silk. But for her protection and the protection of the manufacturer of her stockings, the American Standard Association is considering tin-silk test standardization...
Most of the Association's investigations are more technical, less popular, than the standardization tin-silk tests. The Association has, for example, established a national safety code for elevators and escalators, has developed specification and rating systems for refrigerators; a standard for drafting room practice, and a standard for uniform proportions in bolts, nuts and rivets, are more characteristic undertakings. The Association is essentially a manufacturers' rather than a consumers' body; its purpose is to define, not to uplift...
...columbine were our national flower, every little immigrant even could have one growing in a tin...