Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went hysterical over saving waste paper and immediately were advised to quit and send it to the dump. We sacrificed much usable aluminum on a like drive, only to find that it was not suitable for airplanes. We had the tin-can bungle and the canceled postage-stamp fiasco. These panicky and snap drives have plainly got the people dubious on Washington advice...
...high school, got the jump on the older boys by forming their own Junior Commandos, influenced by the comic strips' "Colonel Orphan Annie," currently leading her commandos against enemy agents. At Detroit's Boys Club playground more than 100 youngsters, dressed in shorts, sneakers and tin helmets, and carrying wooden guns, went through commando drill...
...emergency gas mask that can be made at home was demonstrated in Manhattan last week by the American Women's Voluntary Services. The necessary materials can be found in almost any house: a bathing cap, a small tin can, the transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a bit of wire net (from fly swatters), two handkerchiefs, elastic ribbon, adhesive tape, and (from the drugstore) a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime. The principle behind the homemade mask is simple; the assembly is more difficult. The rubber cap is fitted snugly over the face...
...above the pre-war normal. A sentimental, serious ballad, I'll Walk Beside You, has sold 750,000 copies-more than twice the biggest popular-song sale. The only slump has been in the songs and dance tunes peddled by Charing Cross Road (London's Tin Pan Alley). Phonograph companies, doing a 60% above normal business, cannot cope with the increased demand for classical disks. Most spectacular rise of all-400%-has been in the sales of miniature scores (pocket-size reductions of symphonic scores, usually bought only by musicians, music students and zealous amateurs...
...corned beef, potatoes, lemonade, carrots, preserves and dried eggs, by adding moose and bear steaks, lake trout, spruce partridge, ptarm'gan, grouse, venison. At Swan Lake, for lack of regular tackle a Signal Corps man made a line from telephone wires, hammered a fishing spoon out of a tin can and brought in strings of fat trout over the side of an assault boat. Others knock the heads off the foolish spruce partridge (Yukon chicken) which doze on the lower tree limbs in the summer twilight...