Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep Bolivia's social revolution out of the red-both financial and political-the U.S. has invested $150 million worth of grant aid in support of the government since the 1952 uprising. Through the years the U.S. persistently refrained from handing out cash to the nationalized, immensely inefficient tin mines, even though they provide Bolivia with 67% of its export income. Last week the U.S. was forced to reverse its stand...
...Bolivia went a comprehensive tin plan, along with a $10 million loan...
...mention Deep Water Bay or Pokfuluam or Mount Kellett or Happy Valley, where the graves of honorable friends watch over race track, not to write of Tai Po or Sha Tin or Fan Ling, the golfers' paradise, is a crying shame...
...decided that Clark Gable was the best risk in films, Elizabeth Taylor the worst by a wide margin. Making Raintree County four years ago, she wore a tight, Kodiak sort of corset that induced a hyperventilation syndrome ($45,299). For minor illnesses in Giant and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, she cost Fireman's Fund some $75,000. And now Lloyd's and the other underwriters are trying to decide whether they will reinstate Cleopatra's coverage. If they do not, the picture may never be finished. Insurance men made an interim decision last week...
...Rancher Fred May, 43; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Santa Monica, Calif. Miss Turner's previous husbands: Clarinetist Artie Shaw; Restaurateur Steve Crane, whom she married twice ("I was lonely. I have to have someone to love, and there was Steve"); Socialite and Tin-Plate Heir Bob Topping ("This is forever"); Film Tarzan Lex Barker...