Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens probably associate the name Reynolds with Camel cigarets, Prince Albert tobacco or Torch-singer Libby Holman. Nevertheless, in the land where containers are often more important than their contents, Reynolds Metals Co. is a major industrial name. World's largest maker of tin and other metal foils, the company was founded by Richard Samuel Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobaccoman Richard Joshua Reynolds. Indeed, Nephew Richard is supposed to have persuaded R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to concentrate on Camels before he struck out for himself...
...Ingalls stationed himself in front of the speakers, blew a tin whistle until he was red in the face. Unavailing, he advanced on the library with a burly "Red squad" of policemen. When the students swarmed around them, the flustered policemen swung nightsticks, knocked out two girl., students. Finally Director Ingalls turned on the sprinkler system, cleared the campus in two minutes...
...Hongkong, police raided the sideshow of Tin Tsoi, woman ventriloquist, who charged three cents (Hongkong) to let customers talk with her unborn child. They found Widow Tin Tsoi telling patrons that the child had often, during the ten years of her pregnancy, refused to come into the world, inviting them to ask it questions. She was sentenced to six weeks in jail...
Prospects of a steel strike amounted to little more than some loud bluster by William J. Spang, leader of Steel's "rank & file." But his first job was not to coerce steelmasters but to settle his factional feud with Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers' old President Michael Tighe...
...reasons behind the present indigestive contrepas; incompetence or a form of financial looseness whose obscurity does not permit of definition. In either case, a Pecora should probe the pots and pans to gratify the not too academic curiosity of the mulcted. Who nets the rakeoff? Who fills the little tin boxes? Who gets a commission on what...