Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Three's a Crowd, The Band Wagon and Flying Colors, Composer Schwartz and Lyricist Dietz have been recognized by Tin Pan Alley as a top-notch songwriting team. When they work on a show, they hire a hotel room, stay in it until the show is ready for rehearsal. They refer to typical musicomedy songs in jargon: a "restless" ("Moanin' Low"), a "Columbus" ("I Found A Million Dollar Baby"), a "Hoover" ("Just Around A Corner"). The coat, vest and pants of a song are its verse, transition and chorus. Dietz-Schwartz songs ("Something to Remember...
...takes 100 tin cans a year to maintain the average U. S. family-about 60 for food and about 40 more for oil, shoe polish, paint, etc., off & on throughout the year. Since cans, once opened, are of little further use, that means the U. S. consumes 12,000,000,000 cans annually. Tin cans, as all the world knows, are not made from tin but from tin plate which is 98½% steel with 1½% coating of tin. Last year the can makers used more steel than any other industry except the automobile, absorbing one-eighth...
Continental Can was yet to be born when William B. ("Tin Plate") Leeds and his gaudy crew of promoters gathered up 90% of the U. S. can business in 1900 and called it American Can-what really was then but is not now the Tin Can Trust. American Can promptly made the mistake of raising prices all around, which not only irritated Roosevelt I and the best can customers but also attracted scores of competitors into the field. One thus attracted was Edwin Norton, who had sold out to the Trust and urged others to do likewise. Mr. Norton...
...American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has copyright control over the public performance of practically every U. S. song from "I Love You Truly" to "Fun to Be Fooled." Because of that control, the most potent organization for the protection of the legal rights of Tin Pan Alley last week found itself the defendant in the most serious suit in its court-studded career. The plaintiff : the U. S. Government. The charge: violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...months, five times five million souls throughout British Malaya and Dutch East Indies are the gainers. When cocoa rises 1½¢ per lb. from its year's low of 4¼¢, as it did last week, native growers all along Africa's west coast rejoice. The fact that tin is being held tight by a tight-fisted cartel at 52¢ per lb. means steady employment in Bolivia, Siam, Nigeria, Dutch East Indies and the Malaya States. When silk rises from its Depression low to its price last week of $1.20 per lb., Japan can and does buy more scrap steel...