Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burke and his skippers loved nothing better than to bring their tin cans swooping into Blackett Strait, heeling them hard and sending giant waves to wash away Army and Marine latrines standing stilt-deep at water's edge (they tumbled best when top-heavy with occupants). For each such kill, a palm-thatched hut was painted on a destroyer bridge. This sport continued until an admiral, beseiged with Army complaints, collared Burke and roared: "Burke, if you or your men smash any more of these goddam privies, I'll see that...
CANNED VEGETABLES are going up. Canners and freezers currently negotiating contracts for their 1956 pack report paying up to 35% more for tomatoes, from 10% to 15% more for celery, spinach and cauliflower plus higher costs for tin cans, wages and freight...
Though the base price of steel has held steady since the $7.35-a-ton increase last summer, spot price boosts on tin plate, wire rods, etc. have resulted in an overall hike of about $2 a ton in the price of steel. More increases, warn critical economists, would only add to the dangers of inflation to the U.S. economy, send costs upward for dozens of industries...
Frank Moore Cross Jr., an authority on the "Dead Sea Scrolls," will be associate professor of Old Testament. Until the summer of 1957, however, he will continue as associate professor of the McCormack Theological Seminary tin Chicago...
During the zvon's first years here, undergraduates responded to its music with catcalls, alarm-clocks, saxophones, and tin-pans. The Master at that time became so worried about the House's reputation that he temporarily forbad zvon-ringing until a suitable player could be found...