Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Ethelbert Stewart, 79, longtime (1887-1932) authoritative U. S. Labor Department statistician; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington. Rebuked for disputing Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak's optimistic statement that employment was rising in 1932, he retired, drawled: "I have had a tin can tied to the end of my coattail...
...field my first instinct was to fly. They all looked like an Australian desperado named Ned Kelly. This gentleman was a bush ranger (first cousin to a gangster), who, in the last century, acquired a coat of chain mail, made himself a helmet out of a kerosene tin, and terrified the Australian bush by daring feats of robbery and violence...
...Henry R. Misrock; Jack Kirkland & Sam H. Grisman, producers) is another play about a boys' military school. This one, depicting a school called Newtown Military Academy, better administered and more sleekly appointed than Stone Ridge (see above), presents detailed cross-sections from the daily life of its tin-pot Napoleons and apprentice Casanovas. A kindly teacher of English who considers Browning sonnets more important than Browning machine guns is tormented by the boys until he loses his job, to the detriment of his love life. Bright Honor points out that education at Newtown is smothered under the pressure...
...many years at his country home at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Funnyman Joe Cook has been assembling at great expense safety pins, collar buttons, unset stones, Japanese netsukes, miniature bibles, bathtub faucets, tin soldiers, perfume bottles, ball bearings, for his celebrated collection of objects ''no larger than a man's hand." An object which qualified for the Cook collection appeared in New York's art mart last week, a 16th Century portrait four and one-half inches in diameter. Comedian Cook is an unlikely purchaser, however, for the picture is the only authenticated self-portrait...
After a $440,600 profit in 1929, Yukon Gold tumbled into the red in 1930, piled up big deficits the next two years. Reason for the decline was the state of tin which,, like most of the world's leading metals, was caught out on a limb by Depression. In spite of cartel restrictions, output did not drop as fast as consumption from 1929 through 1931 and prices dropped from 45? to 24? per Ib. In 1932 production was pulled below consumption. Two years later prices were up to 52? per Ib., and the company showed a profit...