Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty little Santa Rosa, Calif, last week, 8,000 fun-loving rustics sat in the grandstand of the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, watched 46 local jalopies rattling round & round the trotting track in a 100-mile "Tin Lizzie Derby...
...State Department immediately endorsed. "Within the next few days," said Senator Byrnes, the State Department would open negotiations for barter trade with Great Britain, Holland, and Belgium, swapping raw materials such as U. S. surplus cotton (TIME, April 10) to lay in "emergency stocks" of strategic materials (rubber, tin) in which those nations hold the world monopoly...
...Harvard's authorities on Government, Professor Elliott wants the United States to force the Allies to pay their debts. He would induce them to cooperate in a United States corner or a limited embargo against the fascists of certain war materials, such as tin, scrap iron, and steel...
...plan provides that the British would pay their debt in tin from South Africa, chromium from Rhodesia, tungsten and antimony from China and British Burma, and other materials. They would be kept in a government stock pile on reserve for emergency...
...cover themselves with dirty sheets, blankets or coats they managed to carry out with them. Many sleep in the open, rain or shine. Icy sea winds blow the sand continually. Most of the refugees have developed conjunctivitis. Fuel in the large camps is scarce. Cooking is done exclusively in tin cans. At one camp men and women at first stood in line all day waiting to get a little water from a small faucet. At another the only water available-and it is brackish-is obtained from pumps driven into the sand. All the water...