Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marengo Valley near Ashland, Wis., one Arvo Juoni, Finnish farmer, took a bride, remained with her at the farmhouse of her father, John Peterson, for a quiet, peaceful honeymoon. As Juoni & bride were about to retire there appeared outside the house a band of Finnish youths and maidens, beating tin pans, blowing horns, and demanding $15 tribute to stop. Father Peterson indignantly refused, so the charivari continued all night while father, bride & groom vainly tried to sleep...
...Nuutinen of the charivari committee retorted that they would stay there till he did, if it took a year. Twelve nights the charivari continued while Father Peterson grew grimmer and grimmer, Juoni & bride grew paler and weaker. The band grew larger, jumped to 40, doubled overnight. To the horns, tin pans, boilers, drums,, hoops, hammers, fiddles, were added saxophones, beer trays, cow bells, circular saws. Father Peterson appealed to Sheriff Elmer Saunders, had four leaders arrested, held in $50 bond by Ashland's Municipal Judge Thomas A. Humphrey. The next night the din was louder, included the popping...
...capacity three months ago the rate of steel operations declined steadily week after week until last fortnight, when it stayed at the same level (31%) as the week before. Last week a slight rise, to 33%, was registered, somewhat to the surprise of the statisticians. For tin plate output, long the brightest spot in the steel picture, declined last week: three more blast furnaces (two at Birmingham and one at Chicago) were blown out; the summer decline in automotive steel buying had set in strongly.† Last week's rise, slight as it was, in the face...
...While these operators were conferring two truck loads of shabby National Miners' Union (Communist) strikers, their gaunt wives and skinny-children, arrived in Washington to protest. They parked behind the White House. Police were ready for them, confiscated tin cans for collecting money, banners emblazoned "Down With Hoover's Strike-Breaking Conference...
...gigantic, when pet dogs threw themselves out of upper storey windows, when cooks reeled drunk in areas, when one sat for hours with one's feet in dirty straw dragged along the streets by horses, when an antimacassar was on every chair, and the baths were minute tin circles, and the beds were full of bugs and disasters...