Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital city of Conakry, the nationalized Printania store displays empty shelves, broken windows, and East European canned goods (gulyás, pickled pork, beans), as well as toy Chinese Communist trucks at $8 apiece and East German pliers for $4. Women queue up for soap powder, tin buckets and sandals cut from old bicycle tires...
...fruit to feed Brazil's exploding population; what was once useless scrub in the central state of Goiás is now pasture land for 4,000,000 head of cattle. And prospectors fanning out from the road have found a vast mineral potential, with deposits of nickel, tin, lead, zinc, copper, gold, diamonds and quartz...
...tiny island of Singapore, strategically situated midway between India and China, has long been a commercial center of Southeast Asia. It processes and exports rubber, tin, pepper and copra from Malaya and Borneo, imports machinery from Australia, Britain and the U.S. Its trade has made it a leading banking, warehousing and insurance city in Asia. When Singapore joined with neighboring Malaya, nearby Sarawak and North Borneo in 1963 to form the rich Federation of Malaysia its 1.8 million people prepared expectantly for a boom in business...
...hang on to it." After all, he pointed out, Red China, Russia and the U.S. have occasional economic troubles; it is his proud boast that Burma borrows the best from both Communism and capitalism while keeping isolated and independent of each. Maybe, suggested some in the seminar, Brigadier General Tin Pe, until recently head of the people's stores and the most Marxist officer in Ne Win's Cabinet, was to blame for the distribution snafu? No, insisted Ne Win manfully, "the brigadier is not alone responsible for it. The entire government, including myself, is to blame. They...
...Estate. When the child became a man, he was fit to be nothing but a beggar. So Ali, with the help of his neighbors, made a little platform on wheels, rolled himself down to the marketplace, and sat there miserably day after day, holding a tin cup. The villagers both pitied and feared this monstrosity of their own making, and continued to maintain his misery as a sort of public convenience...