Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meat. The west coast countries reaped a fat profit from such wartime exports as copper, tin and nitrates, but when war ended they well knew that they would have to find trade items to replace the war babies. The Chileans had big plans for ending their dependence on copper and nitrates by industrialization. But building fisheries, power plants, and developing transportation is a long-term process, and it will cost more than Chileans can find. Like their Pacific neighbors, they need help from abroad. The question is, where will it come from...
Back a number of years two successful songwriters known as Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, propelled by the conviction that the typical popular song could be classified as somewhere between ridiculous and ghastly, put out a book of songs burlesquing the lyric and melodic conventions of Tin Pan Alley. This collection included such masterpieces of lyric vacuity as the following lines...
...such as "It Might As Well Be Spring," it usually outsells all the others, but the tinkling of the each rolling in remains unheard by publishers and song-writers in their mad effort to turn out "For Sentimental Reasons" a hundred times a year. The deaf sport is in Tin Pan Alley's car, not the public...
...Guachalla and followers all challenged Guachalla congressmen were to be seated, thus assuring the Guachallistas of at least a fair chance of controlling the new Parliament. Hertzog promised to invite his friend and rival to join his Government and help him deal with such pressing matters as a new tin miners' strike, an Argentine proposal for a trade treaty like the one Peron made with Chile (TIME, Dec. 23) and a flood in tropical Beni province (where alligators had chased the flood victims into the tree tops...
...leave-it rule barring amendments. Appropriations Committee Chairman John Tabor whipped the Republicans into line. He got fervent support from Missouri's Dewey Short, who opened an attack on New Deal spending by disdaining the microphone and bawling: "I never did like to speak through a tin horn. It's like kissing a beautiful girl through a screen door...