Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, Mo., a score of nightclubs introduced a "Mouse in the Cage" gambling game. Patrons bet on one of six colors painted above six holes around the sides of a mouse cage. The live mouse is released from a tin can in the centre of the cage, usually picks the red hole (even money), then blue (8 to 1), last of all gold...
...useless to fight the real evils in the Nazi regime with swords of tin. To overcome fascism, racial discrimination, and militant foreign policy one must strive for participation in world affairs, willingness to sacrifice economic advantages, and freedom of speech and action. A boycott on the Olympics will only produce righteous moral satisfaction...
...Tin cans rust because they are only tin-plated, but the Futurist poems of Dr Marinetti are sold in books with pages of pure tin which cannot rust, that they may be read in the most distant future A dynamic eccentric who is acknowledged by artists and art critics to have founded and vastly stimulated the whole Futurist school, Poet Marinetti leaves others to carve, paint and sketch (see cut) while he pioneers. In tactile sensation Dr. Marinetti adventures by turning out all the lights and reveling with his disciples in the feel cheese crinkled paper, pearls, nutmeg graters, alabaster...
However snobbish Groton may seem to outsiders, it is both democratic and in some respects Spartan within. Boys still wash up in tin basins at long soapstone sinks where hot water taps are few. Neither boys nor masters enter the infirmary without a faint feeling of shame. Endicott Peabody at Cambridge was a great oarsman, and exercise at Groton is "almost a sacrament." The Rector permits tennis and golf but he encourages the rough team sports. Until rivals raised too loud a clamor, he and many masters played on the school teams...
...months ending Sept. 30 showed a $7,894,000 profit. American Can and Continental Can have recently invaded Mr. Levis' territory with their production of beer cans but Owens-Illinois does not worry much about the canned-beer menace, thinks the glass container so much cheaper than the tin container that no serious competition should result. Mr. Levis differs from the older generation of bottle-makers in seeing the bottle as a package and in merchandising it as a container that permits full product visibility...