Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tin Badge. In neighboring Alabama, trouble was triggered not by shooting but by shouting. Black Power Prophet Stokely Carmichael started it with a wild argument at a voter registration meeting in Prattville, a reputed Ku Klux Klan stronghold ten miles from Montgomery. Stokely's target was Prattville Assistant Police Chief Kenneth Hill, who shot and killed a Negro early this year during a jailbreak attempt after a mistaken arrest for murder. When Hill showed up at the meeting, Carmichael yelled: "Take that tin badge off and I'll take care of you myself!" After getting reinforcements, the cops...
...company with 40 plants in the United Kingdom, 32 more in Africa, Asia, Italy and the West Indies. Still working closely with Continental Can, the company has diversified into container products ranging from cardboard boxes and packaging labels to polyethylene bottles and aerosol valves. But it is on the tin cans used for food, beer and soft drinks that Metal Box truly thrives. Thanks to high-powered marketing, the company accounts for 90% of Britain's food-can sales, has just announced record pretax profits of $38.1 million over the past fiscal year...
...kind of madness. His wife divorced him over it, his fortune was squandered on it, and the story goes that after he had given his collection to Rouen, he moved into a church tower. On certain days, he could be seen sitting on a curbstone, dining from a tin of sardines-with a servant standing in readiness behind him with a white linen napkin...
...possibility of commodity shortages not only panicked European housewives, who in many places swept shelves bare of sugar and spices, but also sent excited shivers through the world's commodities markets. Futures prices went up sharply on tin, rubber, sugar, grains and potatoes...
...Quang Tin battle was the biggest in a week of continued enemy pressure and Allied counterthrust in the five northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam that comprise I Corps. After the Reds struck in a brief terror attack on the ancient imperial capital of Hue, U.S. Marines from the Seventh Fleet launched Operation Bear Bite. A force of some 2,000 leathernecks streamed ashore 21 miles northeast of Hue in an amphibious and heliborne assault. Sporadic fighting also broke out along the Demilitarized Zone, where the Marines discovered and destroyed no fewer than 77 Communist bunkers, stacked with food...