Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrive in free busses by 8 p. m. They filed into the armory to face a banner as big as a barn hung over the speakers' platform : JERSEY CITY 100% AMERICAN. REDS KEEP OUT. After an interlude while entertainers kept the crowd amused, suddenly a green-jacketed, tin-hatted Hudson County Legion Band swung down the aisle blaring The Stars & Stripes Forever, followed by a color guard, a regiment of white-capped Legionnaires. The band wheeled, played the Star-Spangled Banner, a black-gowned woman sang it. Then the lesser speakers began to warm...
...stuff. To the surprise of conductor and orchestra. the staid audience stomped, clapped and howled its approval. Within the next three years approximately 500 performances of the work were given by U. S. symphony orchestras, thousands more by every conceivable combination of instruments, from jazz bands to harmonica ensembles. Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths gaped incredulously as this symphonic work began to outsell their own best sellers. U. S. lowbrows who had never heard of shy, hermit-like French Impressionist Maurice Ravel sang, hummed, whistled and danced to his Bolero...
...Camden, Del., Farmer James Harris lost the silver platter he won as first prize in the pie-baking contest of the Peninsula Horticultural Society when Mrs. Hynson Cohee sent word to the contest committee that she had sold Harris the pie for 30?, and that she wanted her pie tin back...
...sharecroppers and laborers; sums up what the Government would or could do for farmers. What makes Building America unique is the extraordinary illustrations that tell the story so well that they need little explanatory text. Notably communicative photographs in Our Farmers include a grimy farmer drinking water from a tin cup beside his tractor, Tip Estes' family of eight sitting down to dinner, three farmers talking things over in the general store, a group of striking farmers fleeing from tear gas, the fingers of erosion tearing away the soil...
...comfortably in clean hotel beds, decide each morning which army they wanted to cover that day. But such convenience bred its carelessness and, for example, all United Press men had to be warned against foolishly exposing themselves after a machine-gun bullet bounced off H. R. ("Bud") Ekins' tin hat. While Shanghai was a battlefield, New York Herald Tribune's Victor Keen took a day off and was married...