Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catch on until Capitol recorded her He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down and You Better Watch Yourself, Bub. Her first two records have already sold nearly a million copies. Last week Nellie, now 32, received Broadway's final tribute to a popular singer, Tin Pan Alley's rough equivalent to a Stalin prize. She was signed to appear at the Paramount Theater at $3,000 a week...
...pioneer drink variously known as "pizen," "popskull" and "panther milk." The recipe: "To a five-gallon keg of Taos Lightning [whiskey] add a one-pound plug of chopped chewing tobacco, two pounds of burnt dried peaches and 20 charges of gunpowder; stir the mixture well and drink in a tin...
...part, Tin Baron Antenor Patiño was far from displeased. His plan was working out. When the company rehired its miners, it would hire only non-union labor, no "agitators." That would break the National Federation of Tin Miners...
...country where tin supplies two-thirds of the national income and four-fifths of Government revenue, Patiño's maneuver was also a political power-play. It knocked the wind out of the six-month-old Government of President Enrique Hertzog. A fragile coalition of pro-mine-owner Conservatives and the Marxist Left Revolutionary Party (P.I.R.), it had held together only because of common fear that the supporters of the late Dictator-President Villarroel, who wound up his career dangling from a lamppost (TIME, July 29, 1946), might stage a comeback...
...three clerks sorted out 474 bottles of wine, stripped them of identi fying labels. Then they were carried into the presence. There the judges examined them for color and clarity, sniffed them for bouquet, rolled them on their tongues to test the body, then spat them out into a tin pail half-filled with sawdust...