Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prince Souvanna Phouma, who traveled from their nearby headquarters aboard a Soviet-made Hound helicopter. Twenty minutes later a transport from Vientiane touched down, and out stepped anti-Communist Prince Boun Oum and his obdurate Defense Minister, General Phoumi Nosavan. Members of the three delegations crowded into a small, tin-roofed army club raised on stilts above the ground...
...Container Corp. of America is producing paper cans designed to take away part of the lucrative frozen fruit juice market from tin cans...
Whatever the cause of the blasts, they found echoes in the U.S. In its unique way, Tin Pan Alley was joining in the protest against the Wall. Listed by Billboard as one of the "Hot 100" was a rock 'n' roll ditty titled West of the Wall (Big-top Records). Sample lyrics...
...Died. Tin Maung ("Tinny") Thant, 21, only son of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, a onetime sociology student at Manhattan's Hunter College; of brain injuries after falling off a swerving bus; in Rangoon, Burma...
...would actually get the coveted shares. The reason for all the enthusiasm: since Palmer, a New Zealand-born corporation lawyer, joined Ready Mixed as a director in 1945, the company has expanded into eight foreign countries, now controls 186 concrete plants, 40 quarries and a Malayan tin mine. Last year Ready Mixed doubled its profit to $2,400,000. Placid Chairman Palmer, who meticulously limits himself to an eight-hour workday and refuses to take papers home, intends to maintain the same headlong expansion into any area "where labor is costly...