Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Tin Pan Alley, taking up this White House challenge, quickly produced the following sample song...
Known as R-B-M (Robertson-Bonded-Metal), the new steel is an amalgamation of three substances. Pure steel is coated with an alloy of tin, lead or zinc. The alloys are then heated to a temperature just beyond the plastic point but below the liquefaction mark. At this temperature felts can be cemented to the alloys. Upon cooling the felt adheres to the steel by means of the adhesive alloy. On the felt may be grafted further coatings-of asbestos, cellulose, imitations of wood, silk, jewels. The new metal may be rolled, drawn, pressed, corrugated. Chief difficulty...
When, six months ago, the vice president of American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. arrived from Pittsburgh to be made operating vice president of the parent company, there was little stir in the House of Steel. William A. Irvin (pronounced: Irwin) was given an office down on the 14th floor, far away from the real executive headquarters. He soon and often thereafter returned to Pittsburgh to inspect the noisy mills which are the Corporation's core. When at No. 71 Broadway, he worked hard at the used desk which had been given him. Few of the New York personnel wandered...
...telegraph operator for Pennsylvania Railroad and later a shipping clerk for P. H. Laufmann Co., sheet and tinplate makers, in 1895. He literally went through the mill, coming out superintendent. Two mergers brought P. H. Laufmann into the U. S. Steel family in 1904, as part of American Sheet & Tin Plate. For 20 years Mr. Irvin was assistant to the operating vice president. Then he was rewarded with promotion to vice president in charge of plant operations...
...Isaac Goldberg '10, author of such popular books as "Havelock Ellis," "The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan," "The Fine Art of Livisng," "Tin Pan Alley," and "George Gershwin: A Study in American Music," has been awarded the grant to carry forward the preparation of a history of the modern literature of Spanish and Portuguese America...