Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Tin Box. Yet for all his wily grandeur, the Governor always landed on his feet. The charges against him somehow got dropped in time for him to run for office again (including twice, unsuccessfully, for President). His strident anti-Communism-plus the 30,000 state troopers at his command-won him a place in the 1964 revolution that overthrew Jango Goulart. True enough, he had a few bad moments when the reform-bent military regime started out with a purge of corrupt politicians, but his name never appeared on the purge lists. Friends among the top brass managed...
...have been chastened by the military's zeal against corruption. Not Adhemar. While revolutionary tribunals zeroed in on the in discretions of Leftist Goulart and his allies, the Governor blithely launched an all-out kickback campaign that local businessmen defined wryly as "the golden era of the little tin box." Few new enterprises could get started without cutting Adhemar in, and established concerns were often hit for "contributions" to Adhemar-invented causes. An $18 million school-construction contract was mysteriously awarded without public bids...
...import all of its aluminum; until six years ago, iron-ore exports were forbidden because the government believed there was only enough to supply domestic needs for a generation. All that negative thinking has been swept away by recent discoveries of natural gas, bauxite, copper, manganese, silver, uranium, tin, nickel, zinc and lead. Coal exports have jumped from $26 million in 1962 to $68 million...
...Other Countries), a sort of private Peace Corps. Their primary job is to develop a community spirit in the barrios (slums) and to stimulate the habit of self-help. What complicates their task is the numbing sense of futility bred by the sprawling poverty. In Caracas, for instance, innumerable tin and cardboard huts perch uncertainly on the scenic hillsides. They are put up overnight and house hundreds of thousands of peasants who flood the city seeking work and a better life. They find neither. Few make more than two hundred dollars a day, a third of which they spend...
...TIN PAN ALLEY