Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack through Thailand would also run into difficult terrain, both swampy and mountainous. It would run into Thailand's questionable Army and, eventually, into seasoned British and Indian troops. But, if successful, such an attack would have the merit of capturing Thailand's resources of rice and tin, of cutting off the Allies' aid to China at its root...
Such a war would center in the South China Sea, since it is through these waters that we get most of our rubber, tungsten, manila hemp, tin and other essential raw materials. Likewise a large part of Japan's necessities flow over this route...
Myrna Loy blinks sweetly through hell and high water, and if she isn't completely oblivious to what's going on, she is well on her way. Asta, the poor man's Rin-Tin-Tin, is back again, but to most moviegoers his cute trick of looking for stray fire-hydrants is about as worn out as the hydrants must be by this time...
...through his horn-rimmed spectacles for strategic materials tied up in railroad yards, warehouses, backyards. By last week he had almost finished. On his desk, hundreds of pink slips showed such "frozen" items as 20,000,000 lb. of copper sheets, ingots, wire, etc., 27,500,000 lb. of tin plate and 4,000,000 lb. of pig tin, "vast quantities" of rubber, silk, wool, hides, chemicals...
...CASE OF THE EMPTY TIN-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). A code scratched on a tin can in the dusty corner of a California cellar gives Perry Mason his first clue in a case of double murder. Departs in many ways from the familiar Mason formula-and is much the better...