Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delivery to $1.25 for June delivery. Gasoline sold at from 5.78? to 5.98? per gal. Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops, grain sorghums, sugar bags...
...last minute the old National Labor Board issued a new set of election rules which Mr. Weir rejected. Thereupon in December 1933 he held an election of his own which resulted in a thumping victory for Weirton Steel's company union. Disgruntled leaders of Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, an American Federation of Labor affiliate, let out a mighty howl that they had been tricked and cheated at the plant polls, that Mr. Weir's union was owned hand & foot by the company, that the steelmaster was a ruthless violator of Section 7a. Mr. Weir's attorneys...
...last session of Congress President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to prohibit export of tin-bearing scrap. Scrap dealers expect new agitation for an embargo at this session, are confident that President Roosevelt will oppose it because he is trying to develop export trade. But last fortnight, Raymond Moley, the President's friend and counselor, published as the lead article in his magazine Today a sharply critical analysis of Japan's scrap buying by Ray Tucker, longtime Washington newshawk. Reporter Tucker concluded that Japan's demand for scrap was unmistakably for the purpose of 1) modernizing her army...
...their semi-annual convention in Manhattan, members of the National Puzzlers' League teased one another's brains for three days with: an anagram for "a counterfeit nickel" (solution: "Notice, fake lucre, tin"); a transdeletion or progressive anagram from '"sod" to "countryside" in eleven changes; a rebus of an H written inside a G, both over a W (since it is The H and writ in G on the W all, the solution is: "The handwriting on the wall"); and interminable alphagrams, charades, transposals, cryptograms, rhomboids, antigrams, palindromes, inverted pyramids and plain puzzles. Outstanding contribution was a "seventeen...
Snapped Sir Philip, until 1931 a director in Consolidated Tin Smelters: "His Majesty's Government watch the developments in the tin market, but do not consider any action on their part called for. . . . We have never had a complaint that the present high price of tin is unreasonable. . . . In fact the price of tin has remained remarkably stable for many months with the result that speculation has, I understand, greatly diminished...