Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Tin Star (1957), starring Henry Fonda as a onetime sheriff turned bounty hunter who is drawn into a showdown of strength-between a gunman and an inexperienced lawman, played by Tony Perkins...
...colorless Norris Poulson. Sam shaved off the mustache he had worn since he was 17 ("I always wanted to look older") and literally rode into office on trash. A major campaign issue that won the hearts of housewives was his opposition to a since-repealed city ordinance requiring that tin cans be separated from other rubbish...
...average 2.7% two weeks ago. Last week Owens-Illinois, Inc. raised fall prices by 3% on 60% of its glass containers, which package such things as food, drugs, toiletries and soft drinks. Even the Government joined the trend, as the General Services Administration upped the sales price of stockpiled tin from...
...Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving would accept the café. "Irresponsible philanthropy!" roared Hoving. "Hartford is trying to manipulate potentially dangerous areas for his own end, but he has failed." With a rap like that, Hunt had to promise "a substantial sum" for the pools anyway. Meanwhile, he found another tin cup for his cash. Barely minutes before demolition was to begin, he anted up $100,000 to keep the wreckers away from the old Metropolitan Opera House for six months...
...face of any 1966 doomsayers (or, in the old Wall Street word, bears) who in their most nervous moments may conjure up images of 1929, when stock values almost overnight plummeted by 50%. To talk about 1966 in 1929 phrases is to compare Gemini 10 to the tin lizzie. At the time of the Crash, a mere 1,371,920 people were, as the saying went, "playing the market." Most of these were either professional speculators or amateur gamblers who might have done better at the $2 window at the nearest race track. Today, corporate ownership through shareholding...