Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilmington, Del. Federal district judge. This time Weirton was accused of flagrant violation of the 1935 Wagner Labor Relations Act, of favoring its two company unions (Employees Representation Plan and Weirton Employees Security League) to the exclusion of all others- mainly C. I. O.'s Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers-of terrorizing, intimidating, bribing, coercing its workers...
...doing sleight of hand with Germany's foreign trade. With gold in the Reichsbank dwindling toward zero, Germany, since the rise of raw-material prices in 1935, has had to export finished goods at uneconomical prices in order to get currency to buy abroad such raw materials-copper, tin, oil-as she cannot manufacture synthetically...
...Florida several years ago the Legislature, by constitutional amendment designed to attract new industries to the State, exempted a list of manufacturers from ad valorem taxes, State, county or local, for 15 years after establishment. Included were manufacturers of "steel vessels." Later Florida's Supreme Court ruled that tin can manufacturers were exempt because a tin can is a steel vessel tincoated. Last week County Attorney J. W. Cone of Tampa ruled the Tampa Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. not exempt from taxation because their RFC-financed, 10,000-ton drydock is not exclusively or chiefly used for the manufacture...
Rushing to the scene, bystanders, two of whom had got out of the airliner when it had landed, found the Douglas ripped and tortured like a tin can in which a giant firecracker has burst. Pinned within it were four seriously injured survivors. The fifth survivor-a ten-year-old boy-was thrown free, escaped with bruises. Captain Dietz, also thrown free, was decapitated. The co-pilot and two passengers likewise met instant death...
...Manhattan last week the songwriting team which gave the world Is It True What They Say About Dixie?, Composer Gerald Marks & Lyricist Irving Caesar, journeyed from Tin Pan Alley northward to Teachers College at Columbia University to address a summer class in "Safety Care." The class-students, health educators and playground supervisors from all over the U. S.-soon were beating time to fox trots and waltzes with such words...