Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married- William Bateman Leeds, 34, son & namesake of the late tin-plate tycoon; and Olive Hamilton, 23, onetime Atlantic City telephone operator; aboard Mr. Leeds's yacht Moana, off Miami. Since 1930, when he rescued her from, drowning at Atlantic City, N. J., they have been constant companions. His first wife was Russian Princess Xenia Romanov. Married. Mrs. Henry Symes Lehr, 64, author last year of a sensational biography of her dead husband, "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age; and John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, 70; in Paris. Divorced. Crooner Rudy Vall...
...first time in its history, U. S. Steel announced that vacations with pay will be given this summer to workers "with five or more years of continuous service." Roared President Michael F. Tighe of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers: "I think it is a fake thrown out by the corporation for the purpose of keeping the employes interested in com-pany unions." Using the added costs of vacation pay as an excuse, U. S. Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois, promptly opened its books for third quarter business with prices boosted as much...
...Other steel companies which followed U. S. Steel in granting paid vacations included Jones & Laughlin, American Sheet & Tin Plate, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Steelmen estimated that vacations would cost the industry $9,000,000. Ernest Tener Weir's Weirton Steel offered employes the choice of a paid vacation or double pay for working straight through...
Back to his capital last week went Haile Selassie, no Conquering Lion of Judah. Along the dusty streets the tin-roofed shops of Armenian, Greek and East Indian traders were boarded up, almost all the houses of any pretension deserted. A watchful Italian plane circled lazily above...
However, the source of water for the new pump will not be a well as formerly, but a Cambridge water main, and the old tin drinking cup will be replaced by a modern "bubbler", controlled by the pump handle...