Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Charles Ruffin Hook of American Rolling Mill Co. still has the "little black book" in which he budgeted his $2 weekly salary as an office boy for Cincinnati Rolling Mill & Tin Plate Co. in 1898. Armco's Mr. Hook also still has the conviction he developed while working up through the steel industry-that the No. 1 Big Business problem is its relations with employes and public. In 1911 Armco's General Superintendent Hook married President George Verity's daughter, Leah...
...nature of the work is purely voluntary and there is no thought of digging up a genius now and then. The children do just whatever they wish in three hour periods each afternoon and on Saturday mornings. Each one is given a large paint brush and a biscuit tin full of colors and told to go ahead and paint. The idea is simply to give the children a chance to express themselves creatively in any way they want...
...fifty-five metallic groups, only fifteen have been extensively utilized utilized. From ancient times, gold, silver, Iron, copper, tin, zinc, lead, and mercury have been used. And within recent years the aluminum, antimony, bismuth, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, and nickel groups have also found uses...
...January dinner of the exclusive New York Gourmet Society, during a silence after applause, Emily Post (Etiquette) spilled a spoonful of Swedish lingonberries on the tablecloth. Calmly she said: "People generally think I'm made of tin, a sort of mechanical robot...
...timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck was a fountain of flame which blackened the snow for 100 ft., prevented the horrified witnesses from trying to extricate the ten men aboard. When the flames subsided all ten were dead...