Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of my life I have crossed the ocean about fifty times, principally to go mountain-climbing tin Switzerland, and I usually go to the West Indies about twice a year," stated Professor Marks, who can look back on 46 years of teaching at the University...
...essential to munitions, is not on the U. S. War Department's list of strategic materials because the U. S. has plenty. But Russia's buying spree has brought some U. S. exporters less innocent profits. Few weeks ago New Yorkers were selling spot rubber and pig tin (both of which the U. S. must import) for reexport through Amtorg, chief U. S. purchasing agent of the Soviet Government. War and Navy Department officials, having failed to build stockpiles of these essentials, cracked down with a "moral embargo." Said they, nipping one 500-ton sale of pig tin...
...last week Amtorg was still buying plenty of copper, wheat, gasoline in New York, reputedly still looking for rubber and tin. Its head, stocky, forceful K. I. Lukashov, former president of Leningrad University, was also moving his busy staff to new and larger quarters at No. 210 Madison Ave. (diagonally opposite the home of J. P. Morgan...
...three, learned to write musical notes before he could write words. When he was seven the Quebec government sent him to study for a spell in Paris. In Montreal, where he lives with his father, mother and sister, he spends his spare time playing with tin soldiers and following the latest European war news. A bright student, specially interested in poetry and history, he has gotten all his general education from private tutors. Unlike many a composer three times his age, he has already had nearly all his compositions published (by Maurice Senart of Paris...
...Roman courtesans squinted at their reflections in polished silver, bronze. Louis XIV's mistresses had tin-and-mercury-backed mirrors at Versailles Palace...