Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yellow Cab ordered 110,000 tin whistles (total cost: $1,500) and distributed them last week to frustrated Clevelanders. The response was reasonably shrill...
...officers are quartered in small concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before the Okinawa garrison will have adequate housing. (Congress has so far appropriated $58 million...
...parade suddenly degenerated into a near-riot. Hundreds of bystanders were caught up in the melee. The police put in a call for reinforcements, charged into marchers and bystanders alike, swinging their nightsticks. Then, from the tenements lining Lenox Avenue, a sudden, furious bombardment of bricks, empty bottles, broomsticks, tin cans and pots rained down on the cops. It was over as suddenly as it began. In 15 minutes of violence, seven people (six of them policemen) had been injured. Police arrested...
...father, a Swiss-born peddler of household knickknacks, ran a $25,000 investment in two Colorado silver mines into one of the world's largest fortunes; in Port Washington, N.Y. With earnings from his share in his family's international mining interests (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin), Solomon donated millions to charity (mostly anonymously), in 1947 gave some $4,000,000 to establish the fourth of the famed Guggenheim foundations† which supports Manhattan's avant-garde Museum of Non-Objective Painting...
...Tin soldiers and toy Indians are helping the Social Relations Department prove that the same thing looks different to the same person...