Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After Tin, Oil. The return of Lee Soong and Sharkey to Malaya was soon followed by a wave of terrorism through the rich tin mines and rubber plantations of the north (TIME, Aug. 23). Most of Malaya's tin and rubber normally go to the U.S. Britain can ill afford the loss of dollars from her small hard-currency pool...
Latest result of the Calcutta conference has been Moscow-trained Muso Suparto's proclamation of an Indonesian "People's Republic" and his seizure of Madiun, Java's third city. Production of Indonesia's rubber, tin and oil and their distribution throughout the world was the basis of Holland's prewar prosperity. If the Communists succeed and choke off revival of this trade, it will take more than Marshall Plan aid to keep The Netherlands afloat...
Some likely uses: airplane and jet engine parts (for high strength, lightness and heat resistance); marine hardware (resistance to salt water); industrial equipment where corrosion resistance is important. If titanium does catch on, there is plenty of it. There is more titanium on earth than all the lead, zinc, tin, nickel, copper, gold and silver put together...
Died. Brigadier U Tin Tut, 54, leader in the fight against Burma's Communist rebellion, a negotiator of the Treaty of Independence with Britain, signed last Oct. 17; by assassins; in Rangoon, Burma...
Walk Together. Messrs. Styne & Cahn are, after Rodgers & Hammerstein, perhaps the most successful songwriting team on Tin Pan Alley. In the seven years they have been partners, they have writ ten 150 songs together, sold 6,000,000 copies of sheet music, made the hit parade two dozen times and first place nine times (among their hits: I'll Walk Alone; It's Been a Long, Long Time; Give Me Five Minutes More.) They earn $150,000 a year. Jule, who was born in London 42 years ago, was a piano prodigy who was guest soloist with...