Word: tinning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exports of aviation fuel to Japan, Nipponese officials claim that American and Dutch concerns have stocked her with enough gasoline for a year. Furthermore, rumors are of ten heard that our oil companies are still sending crude fuel which is cracked upon arrival. We are still shipping scrap iron, tin plate, cotton, aluminum, lumber, and hides, and are still buying silk...
Harvard's Tin Pan Alley was born during the bitter A.S.C.A.P.B.M.I. tiff, with the impudent idea that its minstrels were going to give the two other organization plenty of competitions and make the quarrel a triangular affair...
...this fund may come a final settlement of U.S. claims for land expropriated by Mexico since 1868. Of the $9,000,000 total of these claims, about $6,000,000 remains unpaid. Mexico plans to use the residue of the stabilization-fund advance for loans to industries (steel, rayon, tin plate) and for agricultural machinery...
...Switzerland: 1,491,000 lb. of steel plate; 690,192 lb. of tin plate; 19 automobiles...
...happened when Dick Harlow asked Bingham to take the famed Harlow tin whistle and give it a blast whenever the ball was downed. On the first play the ball was snapped, backs spun, and Bingham raced down the left side of the field...