Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tin. It will be a year at least before much tin reaches the U.S. Dutch and British tin-mine operators do not know for sure whether the Japs have wrecked mining machinery, dredges and smelters. But to be safe, they are prepared to place orders for millions of dollars worth of equipment...
...stabilization formula which would be more flexible than the badly bent "Little Steel" formula. ¶ The 40-hour week would again be standard. That meant an immediate cut in the take-home pay ¶ Controls on raw materials would be lifted completely, except on still critical items, such as tin, rubber, lumber. Industry would be given a green light, but WPB would remain as a sort of umpire to prevent a mad and unseemly scramble. One result: automobile-makers (with WPB blessing) promptly upped their estimates of how many cars can be turned out in 1945-from...
When Antenor Patiño married, the son of Bolivia's tin tycoon became the husband of one of the best-dressed women in Europe: the stately Cristina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. He also became the nephew-in-law of Spain's late King Alfonso XIII...
...hottest bands in all the land has never been heard by the public. But Tin Pan Alley knows it well as Brick Fleagle's Rehearsal Band, vaguely describes it as a "jazz workshop." Brick's band consists of 16 key musicians from top-ranking bands who meet once a week to improve their techniques by moaning & groaning the blues and blaspheming the classics with arrangements too torrid for laymen's ears. One suitably muggy morning last week, Brick's boys cut their first commercial discs, "a blues, a mood and two jumpers"-which the Hot Record...
...commuted between Oxford and Cape Town; he took his seat in the Cape Parliament after he graduated from Oriel College. In Kimberley he built De Beers & Co., history's largest diamond monopoly, and made himself the richest man in the world. But he continued to live in a tin shack and to dream of the uses to which his money might...