Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a Montauk captain costs $50. but you can take three or four others along and split the price. Tackle is provided, consisting usually of a 16-oz. rod, a reel the size of a coffee tin, some 1,200 ft. of No. 36 thread line, 15 ft. of copper leader. Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish. A fresh squid is sewed onto the hook and sometimes a wooden lure is trolled ahead of it to rouse the broadbill's interest. To take...
...years Governor Haskell defied his own constitution. That document provided that Guthrie was to be the State capital, but a popular movement favored Oklahoma City. In the dark hours of a June morning Governor Haskell ordered his Secretary of State to put the State seal in a wheezing little tin-can of an automobile and drive it to Oklahoma City. Meanwhile the Governor chartered a special train from Tulsa. At daybreak Haskell and the seal were in a hotel room together, and by his proclamation, Oklahoma City became the capital...
...face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep and dark as if for silver, copper, tin...
Brokers in linen jackets milled curiously around the four brand new rings of the Commodity Exchange-rubber, silk, hides, metals (copper, silver and tin). They eyed the clock nervously but President Jerome Lewine cut short the fanfare at 10 a. m. sharp, clanged the gong. A mighty roar went up from the silver post. To Broker Edwin Troetchell went the honor of first sale: 25,000 oz. of silver to Broker Clarence Lovatt at 37.75? an ounce...
Last week tin plate production boomed up to 100% of capacity-highest level in its 40 years of history. But not since the trust-forming days of William Bateman Leeds, the one & only tin plate king, has there been a tin plate industry, separate and distinct. "Tin Plate" Leeds and his fabulous friends, Judge William Moore, promoter extraordinary, and Daniel Gray ("Czar") Reid, tossed their tin plate trust into T. S. Steel Corp. at a price which made the Elder John Pierpont Morgan groan. What they did keep was the tin can trust. Today most tin plate is made...