Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switcher," who puts quality butter (60? a lb.) in the oleo box (30? a lb.). Another switcher trick: she partially empties a potato-chip tin, hides meat and other items in the bottom...
...Dockers from the entire Riviera. Returning to London, Lady Docker huffed that she was "at war" with Rainier-"I call it the Kremlin down there." Added Sir Bernard: "We are not going back to that dreary little country. What is Monaco but a Coney Island for the winter, a tin-soldier outfit...
...PRICED ALUMINUM cans are starting to roll out, eventually will reduce shipping costs and lighten housewife's grocery bag. United States Can Corp. will sell 6-oz. seamless aluminum aerosol cans for as little as 4.5? each, figures price is slightly less than average for equivalent steel-based "tin...
Agency Director Allen Dulles: "They will buy anything, trade anything and dump anything if it advances Communism or helps to destroy the influence of the West." Last month, for example, Russia moved heavily into the British aluminum market with lower prices (TIME, April 7). Russia has also sold tin, zinc and soybean products below market prices, is selling trucks, autos and machinery in the Middle East at prices the West cannot match...
...Grey Tin-Foil. Not all readers will agree that Dr. No, which Macmillan will publish in the U.S. in July, is magnificent writing, but pages of it, at least, qualify for Ezra Pound's classic comment on Tropic of Cancer: "At last, an unprintable book that is readable." Secret Agent Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate some mysterious goings-on on a neighboring island. His unknown foes promptly plant a six-inch venomous centipede in his bed ("Bond could feel it nuzzling at his skin. It was drinking! Drinking the beads of salt sweat!"). Bond gets...