Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Materials..Truman and Churchill agreed on an exchange of U.S. steel for Malayan tin (see BUSINESS...
...compound went on a rampage and drove their guards from the enclosure. Before the guards could be sent back in at bayonet point and behind a barrage of concussion grenades, the Communists dragged one suspected renegade to the fence, pulled out his tongue, cut it off with tin shears, then beat him to death...
...handful of Communist-led bandits lurking in Malaya's jungles have terrorized the country, kept an army of British regulars and natives (140,000 at present) on the alert, and cost the government some $140 million a year. The cost to the world in lost Malayan rubber and tin may have been far more...
...Government, which went on a buyer's strike against world tin prices last March, ended it last week. The terms of the settlement were something less than a U.S. victory. They were part of a U.S.British swap of raw materials, worked out by President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill...
School of Experience. In Denver, Waitress Evelyn Marshall, yielding to "a sudden impulse," dived out her fifth-floor window, buckled a tin ventilator shaft on the second floor, bounced off a car top into a parking lot, suffered only a broken tooth and a stomach ache. Soberly she told physicians: "This has taught me a lesson. I'll never jump through the window again...