Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was much to be grateful for. When Paz Estenssoro took power 2½ years ago, he was less than an even bet to last six months. Bolivia faced starvation, counterrevolution, a serious Communist threat, an empty treasury and a world glut of tin, its only valuable export. The U.S. helped save the situation by sending free wheat and buying tin for the strategic stockpile. Cost of grant-aid to the U.S.: $17 million-10? for each U.S. citizen. Two and a half years later, Bolivia still needs more loans and grants. But it has a better chance than ever...
Last week the treasure hunt in oil-and-cotton-rich Kern County had reached feverish proportions, as shoe clerks, tin smiths, bankers, doctors, and Hollywood bit-players filed some 200 claims in the county recorder's office. Thousands more rode into the hills in everything from jeeps to Cadillacs; in their spare time, even housewives hopped into the family car and cruised hopefully about the area...
Porter has got by with such rhymes plenty of times: even his wizardry is hard put to improve on four basic rhymes with "love" in the English language (above, dove, glove, shove). But while he can be shamelessly obvious, more often Porter is so dazzlingly dexterous that all the Tin Pan Alleycats bristle with awe. Nobody is cozier with words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved...
Appearing in a Swiss court for a divorce hearing, glamorous Socialite Joanne Connelly Sweeny Patiño, 23, told a sympathetic judge that her husband, Bolivian Tin Heir Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, was "a real sadist, who often beat me." Matter of fact, complained Joanne without further explanation, things really got rough on the Isle of Capri: "On our honeymoon he beat me so much I had a miscarriage...
...TIN AGREEMENT to prevent wide price fluctuations has been signed by 20 nations, will go into effect this winter. Under the plan (opposed by the U.S., West Germany and Brazil), a world tin council will keep tin prices between 80? and $1.10 a lb. (current price, New York: 96?) by selling tin from a 25,000-ton buffer stock when it gets too high, buying when it gets...