Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously this program will annihilate the millions of dollars worth of goodwill built up by foreign firms with their brightly colored oil cans which Manchukuans use for everything from cooking utensils to tin plates for their roofs and linings for their coffins. It will also mean that Manchukuans will have to pay the extravagant cost of working Japan's shale oil refineries, always run hitherto at a loss but kept going for strategic reasons...
...open basket to a height of eight miles, died of exposure on the way down. In 1931. Auguste Piccard. pioneer of the sealed gondola, got up almost ten miles. So carried away was he that he made the astounding comparison of cosmic rays to "rain on a tin roof."* His instruments showed an increasing cosmic ray intensity to the top of his ascent. But by that time Professor Erich Regener at Stuttgart had sent up sounding balloons to 20 miles, had demonstrated increasing cosmic ray intensity to that height, which no stratonaut since has approached. Meanwhile Millikan and Compton were...
This is a thin, tin-panny imitation of French 'machine age' art by a young American who tried hard to be in the latest fashion but didn't succeed...
...crowd, sensing a pennant victory, came equipped for a celebration. Horns, large tin cans, cow bells, and other noise makers assisted the vocal chords. And in the ninth inning when the score board flashed New York's defeat, giving the pennant to the Cards, bedlam broke loose...
...Mason, Ohio, G. L. Gerard heard mountain fiddlers playing a tune from inside a rain spout on his barn. All over town tin roofs spat fire at the touch of a screwdriver, lights flashed on at 2 a. m. John La Mar, who sells melons, pointed an accusing finger at a steel tower which tapers 831 feet above the village, insisted: "I've watched clouds come rolling up until they reach that tower. Then they split in two and each part goes a different direction and we don't get a drop...