Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private person she would not come of age for three years. The question of her official debut could be put off no longer, and in 1943 the wartime Princess was officially introduced to her people in the vivid, yellow glare of the blast furnaces in a Welsh tin-plate mill. Miners, factory girls, housewives and dock hands turned out by the thousands to cheer her on a two-day tour. Denied the privilege of hailing her as Princess of Wales (she is still only Heiress Presumptive, on the supposition that a male Heir Apparent may be born to claim...
...story is told in terms of Bolivia's one export crop: tin. For weeks, Bolivia has been dickering with the U.S. Metals Reserve Co. for a 9?-a-pound price boost (to 76?) on the 20,000 tons it ships annually to the tin-hungry U.S. The U.S. finally offered 74?. Then the Argentines (who are granting Bolivia a $62,500,000 loan) stepped in. Argentina contracted for 8,000 tons a year at the Bolivian asking price and agreed to take 12,000 tons more if no other buyers showed...
...detail of the deal is that Argentina, which uses only 3,000 tons of tin a year, has no smelter to process the ore. Presumably Argentina will have it smelted in England. But what would she do with the surplus over her own needs? It might be smart business to sell it to the U.S.-at a fancy profit...
Roebuck and Co. catalogue, printed on a poorer-than-usual quality of paper, was being eagerly scanned by thousands who not so long ago had trooped to department-store perfume counters in their tin hats...
...Curtice Hitchcock, New York publisher, came across Bonheur in Montreal. When she had read Author Roy's story of life in St. Henri, a smoky slum section of Montreal, she mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work of a French Canadian...