Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frantic hero (Michael Crawford) is the kind of artist who fashions metallic sculptures that look as if they were conceived during a tin famine. Engaged to a very U deb (Lynn Redgrave), he is about to meet her very pukka sahib army colonel father (Peter Bull). Also expected is a millionaire art fancier with a notorious avidity for avant-garde junk. To impress the guests, Crawford and Redgrave have carted off the sculptor's jackdaw furniture and replaced it with elegant antiques "borrowed" from the neighboring apartment of an exquisitely gay bachelor (Donald Madden) supposedly away for the weekend...
Died. Geoffrey O'Hara, 84, composer, who was the toast of Tin Pan Alley in 1913 when opera's great Caruso recorded Your Eyes Have Told Me and Al Jolson belted Tennessee to popularity, but is best remembered for his rollicking K-K-K-Katy, which became the barracks and marching favorite of World War I's doughboys; of hemolytic anemia; in St. Petersburg...
...year-old Commodity Exchange, which also trades in copper, tin, silver, lead, zinc, hides and rubber, hopes that quotations stretching up to 18 months in the future will help to level off mercury's price swings. Though gamblers may now play the mercury market, the chief advantage of futures trading falls to big mercury users. They can buy ahead if prices seem to be headed up, need pay only $500 per contract until actual delivery. If they hold large inventories, they can sell to hedge against the possibility of losing money on falling prices...
...TIME'S usually thorough researchers did not go far enough into the ancestry of the Ford "Tin Goose...
...father was hired by Ford's chief engineer and given a free hand to design the Ford Tri-Motor. It is to Torn Towle, a relatively unknown aviation pioneer, that credit should go for designing the Tin Goose, with its legendary lifting power, durability and structural integrity. He is the real grandfather of the Bushmaster 2000, son of Tin Goose...