Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time presenting us with his check for $5,000. . . . With reference to the implication in your statement that the Heinz Co. donated the food because of inability to determine what the cans contained, it may interest you to learn that through letters stamped on the cap of each tin of Heinz products, it is always possible to identify the contents. I know Mr. Heinz would not think of offering us foods of questionable quality and we, of course, could not consider accepting such foods from anybody...
...Paul last week for the Hamm snatching. Only Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell, companion of Karpis in the Bremer kidnapping, remained at large. Alvin Karpis is a product of Chicago's Wrest Side. His mother did time in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma prisons. After fingerprints found on a gasoline tin connected him with the Bremer case, Federal agents got on his trail, narrowly missed him in the Ozarks, in Cleveland. For a time he hid in a $300-per-month villa in Cuba. In the winter of 1934 he and crippled Harry Campbell shot their way out of a police...
...Polar Bares look upon this achievement with pride as the culminating point in a worthy college career. They argue that it isn't everyone who can drink 300 cans of beer and pile them all on the mantelpiece. The reason they give for collecting such a magnificent stack of tin cans is that when divisionals are over they will be able to celebrate by rolling one down the entry stairs every ten seconds all night...
...battle-scarred steps and will inevitably do more real good for the cause of peace. Professional patriots like the Legion cannot attack the gathering at Sanders as they handled rebellious Chicago school children, or obfuscate the appeal of men such as Prall and Darvall by throwing a cordon of tin-hatted warriors around the battlements of Memorial Hall. The quest for peace can gain real effectiveness if reason, not emotion, prevails...
Most distinguishing feature of the Phillips business is the fact that it buys tin plate, makes its own cans. About 85% of the Phillips cans are used in its 14 packing plants, the rest sold outside. Campbell's cans are made by Continental Can, which has a plant next door to the big soup works in Camden, N. J., rolls the cans on to the Campbell conveyer belts automatically...