Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this musical remake of the 1936 play, she is the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna, a 1920s Parisian exile from the Winter Palace of Czar "Nicky." With her is her consort. General Mikhail Ouratieff, played with the suppleness of a tin soldier by Jean Pierre Aumont. For food, resourceful Tatiana steals artichokes; for fun, the local White Russians have dances in their peasant pantskis-Kazachoks. waltzes, soft shoe, maxixe, tangos, polonaises-name it, they do it. Mikhail carries around 4 billion francs that the Czar gave him "as a sacred trust." come the counterrevolution. As of 1927, a sly Bolshevik commissar...
...Galvin around San Francisco. He often regaled cocktail parties with fascinating tales of his past. Such as the time he bought a shipload of calcium compound in the Orient and made huge profits selling it to natives as a remedy for diarrhea. Or the time he cornered the Malayan tin market. Or the time he interviewed Mao Tse-tung as an adventuring reporter in China during...
...about. Bits of planking preserved under the cargo show that the ship was probably built of Syrian wood and in Syria. She must have touched at Cyprus, the ancient copper center, to pick up a ton of copper ingots, stamped with Cypro-Minoan signs. She also carried ingots of tin, probably from Syria, that have long since turned to white oxide. Packed in wicker baskets, are fragments of broken bronze tools, weapons and household utensils. Apparently the ship was a floating factory, turning copper, tin and bronze scrap into equipment for warriors, farmers and housewives of the Homeric...
...steel this year, steel customers are actually doing less hedge buying than before last year's contract talks. Industry sources estimate that hedging accounts for no more than 15% of all orders. Though the thriving automakers are prudently stockpiling heavily, most of the industrywide pickup reflects immediate need. Tin-plate demand is rising as the canning season approaches, and appliance makers need more steel because their sales are running 12% to 20% above last year's high levels. Builders also need more structural steel because of the rise in capital spending (see below...
...business that steel used to count on. Steelmakers now concede that they were too long indifferent to the competition of other materials, and to fight back are boosting their capital spending 11% this year, most of it for modernization. Jones & Laughlin recently opened a new mill for "thin tin" plate to compete against the increasingly popular aluminum cans that pull open without punching. U.S. Steel is finally building two highly productive "basic oxygen" steel furnaces...