Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victoria Embankment, 40,000 school children in berets of maroon, green and blue swarm into their places. Peter Suffren, 6, with a row of tin medals on his chest and clutching a bottle of milk, a bag of potato chips, says: "I wish I had a princess for a girl...
Rubber statistics are by no means so elastic as cocoa's, and rubber has slumped only about 25%, a bad break last week caused by announcement of Nazi restrictions on German imports carrying prices below 21? per lb. Meantime tin had tumbled from 67? to 54? per lb., copper from 16½? t012...
...mood to give anything away to the Fascists from across the Rhine. Germany is starving for raw materials; the Belgian Congo is one of the richest properties in Africa. Dr. Schacht's scheme was that Germany should buy $84,250,000 worth of Congo copper, tin and oil, pay for it within a specified time with thermometers, automobiles, safety razors, cameras, et al. One potent group in Belgium hailed this scheme with delight, for as special inducement Dr. Schacht was willing to have all the Congo imports carried in Belgian freighters. Catch to all this is that Belgian manufacturers...
...hardly believe that Lambros Demetrios Callimahos is only 26. People hearing him pipe harmonics and flying chromatic scales think he must be twice that age to have mastered such a clean technique. Yet young Callimahos never bothered with the instrument till he was 14, when somebody gave him a tin whistle. Callimahos went on to a flute, played it all through high school in Asbury Park, N. J. where he has lived since he was 4. He was also interested in electrical research, studied law at Rutgers, left to flute instead...
...fabric design piracy. No matter how novel the design, fabrics cannot be successfully patented. Yet songs can be copyrighted. Ingenious Mr. Moon's idea is to use the title or a snatch of the lyric of a copyrighted song to designate print designs, thus extending to dress materials Tin Pan Alley's copyright protection. Adman Moon sees no reason why Night and Day should not identify a black & white print, and April in Paris a design of horse-chestnut blossoms, just as well as April Showers and My Sin identify perfumes...