Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick" all day, astounds his companions...
with some jived-up poultry poetry: Chickery-chick cha-la cha-la, Check-a-la-romey in a ba-nan-i-ka... .Tin Pan Alley actuarians estimate that...
Mixed Drink. In Springfield, Ohio, hospital attendants reported Willie Mar tin's condition as "good" after he had been treated for absorption of a home made punch made of iodine, turpentine, kerosene, rat poison, lighter fluid, shoe polish, and wine...
Eggbeater Production.What McKelvy wanted to tap was a new luxury market. Said he: "I had the same problem that cigaret makers had selling to women." At night, McKelvy began mixing powder in a tin pan with an eggbeater, soon had enough to take around to stores. To Manhattan buyers, he brought cheap full-page ads in obscure trade journals, promised them they would appear in the slick magazines. The stores bit, but slowly at first. He lost $5,000 the first year. Then came the war, and the boom in shipments of gift packages to G.I.'s overseas...
...time. On the blackest night in U.S. naval history, off Savo Island, the Japs destroyed the Allied cruisers Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes and Canberra. Pat, hit and hurt, stood by and picked up 400 survivors. It was the kind of work expected of destroyers. They were the tin cans and expendable...