Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armies of Tin Soldiers!" Equally brimming with Spanish passion last week in Madrid was its Defense Junta head, bald General Jose Miaja who at first tried to keep his Red Militia from growing over confident at their success northeast of Madrid in driving Italian Rightists back nearly 20 miles (TIME, March 22). The General by last week had toured the ter rain from which the Italians fled, abandoning roughly 2,000,000 rounds of am munition, and his pride in Spanish prow ess was at bursting point. A group of neutral Red Cross doctors and nurses offered General Miaja...
...Columbia group)- they put out eight different labels at prices from $2 to 25? a disc. Last week this comfortable industrial balance was altered as an independent producer prepared to bring two more labels into U. S. music shops. Irving Mills, music publisher, band manager and a power in Tin Pan Alley, was getting ready to offer the trade his Master Records (75?) and Variety Records (35?). American Record Co. was furnishing the technical facilities and distribution for the expected 75 titles a month of Mr. Mills's recordings...
...commodity index had pushed above the average level prevailing in the boom years 1927-29. Building materials and iron and steel products have been in new high ground for some time. To these conspicuous markers on the highway to inflation were added non-ferrous metals (lead, zinc, copper, tin, etc.), which as a group have risen 46% since the commodity boom got underway last autumn...
Only a month ago tin was selling at 50? per lb. Last week it hit a ten-year high of 66⅓, despite the fact that the International Tin Committee threw the London market into confusion by suddenly upping second-quarter quotas from 100% to 110% of 1929 figures. Copper, which was 13? per Ib. a month ago, was boosted for the fourth time this year to 16?, while in London, where speculation in metals is now as wild as Wall Street's wildest days in stocks, copper soared above 17½?. So mad was the copper market that...
...next job was to keep Frankie out of trouble during the operation, and we were quickly handed a Campbell's soup tin stuffed with ether-soaked cotton to hold like a cone over the animal's nose. But it was no go. For Frankie was tough, and soon revived. He took one look in our direction to assure himself that the opposition was coming from the same quarters as before, and acted...