Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tin Pan Alley did its bit for China by contributing a theme song for United China Relief. Three of the Alley's top tunesters (Composer Arthur Schwartz, Lyricists Edward "Yip" Harburg and Ira Gershwin) wrote Honorable Moon in one evening and Radio Singer Connie Boswell launched the song on a national hookup last week. Refrain...
...time past, whin I put me jut through wry livin' wan of the Tin Commandments between Revelly and Lights Out, blew the froth off a pewter, wiped me mustache wid the back av me hand, an' slept on ut all as quiet as a little child...
...radio's song pool, sent out royalty checks for the first quarter of 1941, threw Tin Pan Alley into an uproar. Stunned were BMItes, accustomed to a fat swag from 27-year-old rival ASCAP, to receive amounts as small as $2.45. While victims screamed that they were robbed, BMI last week made a hasty checkup, discovered that a honeymoon-struck accountant had figured into the publishers royalties everything but the big item, payments for radio network performances...
...Tin...
...Under "a mild form" of inventory control were 15 other metals: antimony, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, ferrous alloys, iridium, iron & steel products, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nonferrous alloys, tin, vanadium. Users of these must file statements monthly that they are not increasing their inventories...