Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn-raised, Burrows majored in Latin and accounting, got his first job in Wall Street ("I went right up the ladder: runner, board boy, bond salesman-and then I was fired"). A script he wrote for Mimic Eddie Garr gave him a start in radio. Then he began satirizing Tin Pan Alley songs at private parties and convulsed Connoisseurs Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye with such numbers as The Girl With the Three Blue Eyes and I Looked Under a Rock and Found...
...consumers, who ultimately pay all of the taxes. Lots of us small fellows are becoming more & more alarmed about the increasing rate at which our Federal Government is spending our money. We have heard that almost all who come before you do so with hat in hand and tin cup held out . . . We come to strengthen the hand of those of you in both houses of the Congress who are concerned with the mounting cost of Government...
...proud papa was Songsmith Frank Loesser, a Hollywood Tin Pan Alleyite whose specialty is producing catchy, shortlived jingles about leaky faucets (Bloop, Bleep) and slow boats to China. But Baby was not even written for public consumption. Loesser ran it off five years ago as a comedy number for himself and his wife, Lynn, to sing at parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks...
High-Cost Mines. The tin companies, who thought that the government leaned too far toward the unions, shared with Lechin responsibility for the outbreak at Siglo Veinte. When Hertzog, after prolonged arbitration, ordered a 40% wage boost for miners last month, the Patiño company refused to comply. Wage boosts, it insisted, would force the high-cost mines to shut down, cutting the country's one big source of income...
...begun to go back to the pits. The only important exceptions were U.S. and other foreign mine managers, who had been evacuated by plane after the fighting stopped. Many of them refused to return to their posts, leaving Bolivia short of the know-how needed to get out the tin...