Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced to rot in harbors. There is now no place for the 137 new Maritime Commission vessels (all ordered, 22 of them launched) to go. Annual gross revenues of $73,000,000 would be seriously impaired. About 9,000 seamen would become jobless. Such vital U. S. imports as tin, rubber, manganese, chromium, would be curtailed...
Welles cabled to Washington a recommendation that $2,000,000 be loaned to Bolivia, with future tin sales as security, hinted a larger loan to Colombia. (Bolivia, in default now on $60,000,000 of dollar bonds, mostly bought by U. S. citizens, in 1937 seized U. S. oil properties worth $17,000,000, has refused to settle.) But bygones and bargains were secondary with Sumner Welles; he was concerned with a sea wall for the Americas-a wall to keep death out and let life flourish in the great continents within...
France has a technique logical, whimsical, Gallic. When the Germans called France Britain's Rin-Tin-Tin, the French lost little time getting out a story that France's real Rin-Tin-Tin, a trained police dog, had indeed enlisted with his master in the French Army. Paris-Mondial spent much air time twitting Germany on the Moscow deal, hinting at a sort of diplomatic cuckoldry with the Soviets reaping the joys of Germany's conquest...
...After a transcontinental train trip in 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson (his fellow travelers called him "Shakespeare") tells what it was like to sleep on a board stretched between two seats, to wash in a tin dish on the car's windy platform...
...Lakes (division of National) were reported to be sold out at 100% of production until well into 1940. Syracuse's Crucible Steel, No. 1 specialist in alloy steels for gun and shell forgings, automobile and aircraft parts, was booked solid through January 1, In the industry's tin plate division, which normally loafs after Labor Day, U. S. Steel's modern tin mill, Pittsburgh's huge Irvin works was so jammed that 63 old-fashioned handmills in Pennsylvania and Ohio have been called out of limbo to work...