Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unpronounceable profusion in the vast wastes of the Western Pacific. It had been told often enough that a Japanese grab of The Netherlands East Indies would leave the Japanese dominating U. S. trade routes to the Philippines and the Malay Peninsula, thereby threatening its sources of rubber and tin...
...Swagman: hobo; billabong: waterhole; jumbuck: sheep; tuckerbag: food bag; squatter: sheep rancher; waltzing Matilda: hobos' affectionate name for their bag (bundle with blanket, tin cup, etc.) as it dangles from their shoulders and jounces with their pace...
...rose slowly but thoroughly as a merchandising know-it-all, reaching the vice-presidency in 1930. He had long since become the foremost mass buyer in the U. S. From 1928 through 1938 he bought merchandise that sold for $4,500,000,000-some 135,000 items, from tin cups to tractors, from diapers to tombstones...
...farmer-artists, Earl Sugden, 56, of Yuba in Richland County, does his landscapes with barn paint, makes his own brushes out of hair from his horses' tails clamped into holders fashioned from old tin cans. Painting is only one of Farmer Sugden's many hobbies.' Self-taught in everything, he makes arrowheads by pressure-chipping, has made tin models of more than 135 different kinds of Wisconsin birds, likes to make jackknives, translates poetry from French, German, Norwegian and Hebrew, writes poetry himself. Besides a workmanlike landscape and a portrait of a worried raccoon, Farmer Sugden sent...
...saladeros (salting plants), as well as most of Uruguay's wool, go to Europe. Argentina sends its flaxseed (84% of the world trade total), its wheat (23%), its corn (71%), its beef (50%) abroad. Bolivia's copper, lead and silver go abroad and most (80% ) of its tin-mined amid the ruins of the Inca Empire in the Andes-goes to Britain. Beef and wool from southern Brazil go to Europe. Except for some Paraná pine exported from Brazil to Argentina and Uruguay, exports of maté (South American tea) from Brazil and Paraguay to Argentina...