Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot save China. Japan knew that we could not do so. A realistic view of the present situation would indicate that a cessation of fighting would save more lives and prevent further useless destruction. Does it make any practical difference to us who owns the rubber and the tin, provided we can trade with the owner? If we do not like the owner, then again the only argument worth making is still an argument that can be backed up by force...
Married. Sonja Henie, 30, chubby, figure-skating cinemactress, ice-revue star; and Sportsman Daniel Reid Topping, 29, tin-plate heir, principal stockholder of the Brooklyn Dodgers professional football team; she for the first time, he for the third; in Chicago. Choked Sonja: "I have never been so happy...
...which the U. S. might have to fight, willy-nilly, if its rubber-&-tin lifeline were actually cut. Nobody would dislike that war more than the Japanese officers under genial Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto; they have a great liking and respect for the U. S. Navy...
Suddenly an explosion shook the vessel, one Argentine lay dead and five wounded as a result of an improvised time bomb concealed in a beef tin. An hour later pro-Nazi, Hitler-decorated Secretary of the Navy Leon Lorenzo Scasso expediently glossed over the affair: "A fire, source unknown." Threatened by a strong tendency toward native Fascism from within, alarmed by President Vargas' utterances as head of its most important rival for South American leadership, faced by a 30% decrease of European markets since the outbreak of the war (although trade with Britain is way up), Argentina too turned...
...Strategic materials to burn. The Allies controlled about one-quarter of the world's copper, more than half its rubber, about 40% of its tin, one-third its zinc, practically all its nickel...