Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grumbling line formed outside the men's room as passengers hurried to wash and shave. Suddenly, a huge figure in white silk pajamas brushed past the queue, commandeered one of the wash-stands and vigorously commenced a predawn toilet. Don Mauricio Hochschild, Bolivia's fabulously wealthy tin magnate, was in a hurry to get to New York...
Nevada's Republican George W. Malone reported that shipments of tin, rubber, steel and other war supplies to Red China from Singapore and Hong Kong had even been stepped up since the start of the Korean war. In the past eleven months, said Democrat Herbert R. O'Conor, chairman of the subcommittee investigating Red trade, Great Britain and her two colonies had sent close to $357 million worth of strategic materials to the Reds...
...Perils of the Plains. "Just like The Covered Wagon," says Harry, "except we used three wagons and they used 300." By making $3 do the work of $300, the brothers gradually expanded moviemaking, struck it rich with such stars as John Barrymore (The Sea Beast, Beau Brummel) and Rin-Tin-Tin...
Kentucky Waltz (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). With only a handful of states accounted for, it looks as though Tin Pan Alley plans to force U.S. music lovers to waltz their way through the rest of the 48. Je T'Adore (Bette Chapel; Mercury). Miss Chapel's cozy, loose-upper-plate style gives distinction to a run-of-the-mill intime ballad...
...solder-clerk, then went into selling. He rose to sales boss in Philadelphia (where he sold the world's first pressurized tennis ball cans to the Pennsylvania Rubber Co.). He became executive vice president in 1949, lately has set American Can's researchers to developing a "tinless tin can" to meet the tin shortage...