Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sparkle they do, with nine fully lit artificial Christmas trees, rooms wallpapered with tin foil, hanging Styrofoam candy canes, and 15 varieties of ball ornaments. With gift-shop incense, and tintinnabulating carols on the stereo, and snow painted on all the windows, the Locks have created a mecca that is more than a mere gift shop; it is the ultimate expression of the American Christmas spirit...
...mobile homes. Astonishingly, the units accounted for some 36% of all new single-family detached houses sold in the U.S. last year. This pleases Joseph Morris, president of Champion Home Builders Co., a mobile-home manufacturer based in Dryden, Mich.: "People no longer stigmatize our homes as 'little tin boxes...
...wonder. Those tin boxes have stopped looking like railroad cars. Priced from $7,500 to upwards of $80,000, mobile homes now come with pitched roofs, wood siding and such optional amenities as sunken baths, hot tubs and wood-burning fireplaces. Some developers link two or more of these units together to form spacious homes that look at first glance like site-built dwellings...
...Tin Roof (1958): Pretty good film. I'm still aware of how hard I was working...
...drilling rigs and steel, and they have also cashed in on designer clothing and personal computers. Ironically, noted Chen, "the states that have been most successful are those that are very poor in resources, like Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. They have not been tied down like Malaysia to tin and rubber...