Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Jayne Dunham Shadduck, 19, cinemactress, divorced wife of Playwright Jack Kirkland (Tobacco Road); and Henry J. Topping Jr., 21, Manhattan socialite, heir to a $7,000,000 tin-plate fortune; in Armonk, N. Y., with Proprietor John K. ("Mooey-Mooey") Kriendler, of "Jack & Charlie's," Manhattan ex-speakeasy, as best man (TIME...
...last 15 years have whittled U. S. Steel's share of the nation's ingot capacity down from 45% to less than 40%, Inland Steel has doubled its own ingot capacity since 1925. Last year it completed a four-year program of diversification by building a tin-plate mill. Its sales and profits this year came chiefly from sheet and strip steel...
Production climbed to 46% of capacity, against 36½% only three weeks before. Orders for tin-plate, farm implements, machinery and machine tools continued to expand. But the most heartening news for steelmen was the steady growth of miscellaneous business from unclassified sources -orders for steel to make washing machines, kitchen ware, office equipment, furniture, refrigerators and a hundred other commonplace products...
...sailing on the Italian Line and transferring at Gibraltar, Monrovia can be reached in 14 days. Health conditions have greatly improved and I heard and saw nothing of bubonic plague or yellow fever. For a month I lived opposite the Executive Mansion and I saw none of the tin cans you so vividly describe...
...ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...