Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was something strange about Student Zamorski. Surgeons at the hospital dug out of his body not lead but tin. Finally he confessed that the wound was caused by the premature explosion of a home-made bomb in his own pocket...
...Labor Party, Only other occurrence of Labor's convention which remotely approached excitement was a resolution presented by the tin, iron and steelworkers group that the Federation "abandon the traditional non-partisan policy and sponsor a genuine Labor Party." Bland Secretary Frank Morrison promptly pigeonholed it. Day later the convention politely cheered Charles Dukes of the British Trade Union Congress when he told its members: "We were forced to enter politics to protect the primary necessities for ourselves and for our dependents. We believe the day has come when Labor can no longer remain quiescent. Labor is entering into...
...roads as far north as Massachusetts, Sign Man Hardy received no outside aid, financial or physical. Some of his thousands of signs-biblical texts and dour injunctions-he painted on board or metal sheets at home, nailed to roadside fences and trees. Others he whitewashed directly on jutting rocks, tin roofs, barns, sheds...
...Champs Elysées in Paris, on the third anniversary of his death, was dedicated a statue of Wartime Premier Georges Clemenceau, clad in his trench-visiting tin hat and thick coat. Present were President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Herriot, General Max Weygand. Notably absent were Clemenceau's son and two daughters. Long protesting against this "insignificant" monument in a "nonexistent square," they objected also to the statue's muffler, declaring their father never wore...
...year. Electrolytic iron resists corrosion, but is difficult to make. Chromium alloyed with iron makes "rustless iron." "Stainless" steel contains iron, carbon and chromium. But for a multitude of uses a coating over the iron or steel objects suffices. Paint serves well in many places, as does zinc (galvanizing), tin, copper, lead, concrete. Nickel does not tarnish readily, resists corrosion, has high lustre, is hard, and has long been used to plate iron & steel. In all those qualities chromium surpasses nickel. When Professor Fink and others showed how chromium could be electroplated manufacturers quickly adopted chromium plating for electrotypes, motor...