Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tin Pan Alley, the Rio Grande is a sparkling, star-filled stream that incites cowboys and senoritas to romance. Normally, the river is a chocolate-colored ditch, treacherous with potholes where many an unwary wetback has drowned. It swirls between banks of cactus and mesquite down 1,800 miles of rich, irrigated farmland to the Gulf of Mexico. Last week most of the lower Rio Grande, from Laredo (pop. 51,910) to its mouth at the southernmost tip of Texas, was a dry arroyo; at Laredo, the river ran dry for the first time since the International Water Commission began...
...women said little, but that night, as always, they left their jobs in stores, or their work in the meadows and orchards to trudge up the hill to the graves, there to lay fresh flowers, to kneel for prayers, or to light a candle in a little glass and tin box fastened to one of the small white crosses, all inscribed with the same date...
...previous Indonesian cabinet was headed by Dr. Sukiman, who, in the early days of the Korean war, agreed to stop the shipment of Indonesian rubber and tin to Red China, jailed 10,000 Communists who tried to seize the government, later initialed the Japanese Peace Treaty, and agreed to accept MSA military aid. This was too much for the neutralists. Sukiman's cabinet fell under a barrage of anti-American abuse...
...perpetrators are two experienced Tin Pan Alley hands named Tony Burrello and Tom Murray who became discouraged, they say, over the poor sales of their most ambitious stuff. "We are in an era," they concluded, "where good is bad and bad is good." With that, they formed the Horrible Record Co., sat down and in cold blood wrote words and music to both songs "during the next 17 minutes...
Constitutional Flop. In far-off London, the House of Commons showed its alarm. Nigeria, more than twice the size of California and rich in palm oil, tin and perhaps uranium, is Britain's most populous (30 million) colony. Under a federal constitution promulgated in 1951, it seemed to be driving hard towards self-government, along the same boisterous lines as its rival-neighbor, Prime Minister Nkrumah's Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9). Yet last week the Colonial Office admitted that the constitution was a flop, and Nigeria...