Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lover, given by Meierhold what they call in Russia social meaning.' This is apparently accomplished by the introduction of acrobatics . . . and all for a purpose. I can suggest this purpose by describing the entrance of the lover. . . . Meierhold places the lady at the foot of a tin slide, the lover climbs up a ladder to the top of the slide, zooms down it, feet first, knocks the lady off onto the floor and shouts something that sounds like Russian for 'Whee...
...accused of issuing a securities prospectus which he "knew to be false in a material particular." Aiding & abetting this crime was the charge against John Henry Charles Ernest Howeson, one time Calcutta jute dealer who changed his name from von Ernsthausen before he became the world's undisputed "Tin King." Third defendant was a Howeson hireling...
Background of the pepper case was as dizzy as any U. S. dance of corporate dummies. Between Garabed Bishirgian's barren birthplace and his swank mansion in London's Park Lane lay a speculative trail that included caviar, tin and Turk ish rugs. By reputation his "only god was a rising share," though on week ends he was devoted to his 600 pigs on his model farm in Surrey. His lavish stag parties were the talk of the City...
...Tin King" Howeson had even a more spectacular rise from humbleness. With an obscure jute career behind him, he turned up in London about 15 years ago, changed his name for no apparent reason, set out to impose an economy of scarcity upon the world's tin industry. By the end of the 1920's he was master of a $165,000,000 group of British companies, mainspring of the potent International Tin Committee and a power in Empire affairs. The tin restriction plans which were incorporated in an international pact signed at The Hague in 1931 originated...
Last week Sears, Roebuck & Co. bought a seat on the New York Commodity Exchange. The No. 1 U. S. mail order house had no intention of speculating in rubber, silk, copper, hides, tin, lead, zinc, gasoline or crude oil. Indeed, the prime reason for buying the seat was to make it easier not to speculate in such commodities. According to Sears's Robert E. Wood, the seat was acquired to facilitate hedging operations...