Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these days [the truth] will knock down this tin shop of absurdity and wickedness. Then the adventurers will take away their roulette wheels, their hair-curling machines, their good-luck charms. They will go away rich, and laughing at us. Here, amid the uproar, fighting to patch the sinking ship, we will be left alone, the disillusioned...
...Remember the Cornfields (London). The corn is pretty tall, but warm-voiced Anne Shelton gives some sense of Mother Earth to this piece of Tin Pan Alley nostalgia for the great open spaces...
Married. Nancy Walker, 28, rowdy comedienne of stage (Look, Ma, I'm Dancin!) and screen (Best Foot Forward); and David Craig, 27, Tin-Pan Alley lyricist; she for the second time; in Hoboken...
...Ordered a cut of 10% in tin for beer and pet-food cans, banned it in coffee and tobacco cans, in refrigerator trays, jewelry and other civilian items...
...Jarama front in 1937 were brave, but many had never even seen an automobile, and they panicked at the sight of a tank. El Campesino, their Red commander, broke them of that. Once when a tank approached he told them to lie still. He filled his belt with tin cans packed with fused dynamite. Then he slid through the weeds toward the tank. When it seemed to the peasants that El Campesino was done for, he threw twice: one bomb hit the tank's treads, the other its turret. That finished the tank...