Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said the brown-jacketed steward, sweeping cash into his little tin box, "but we will take them today if they're offered...
...flash in tin-pan alley, it was a typical troubadour's success ? quick, dramatic, amazingly profitable. Half a year ago, though he had a chauffeur to drive his Rolls-Royce, Morton Downey was wondering if he had enough money to hire an orchestra and open a nightclub. He had just come back from London where in 1927 the Prince of Wales liked his voice so much that he had him sing an encore eleven times, but that was no guarantee that he would be able to make a luxurious living in Manhattan. Troubadour Downey had nothing much...
...water and gas mains sunk. Top soil was brought in to spread over the sand, to grow trees and grass in. Great scoopers chewed a mile-long harbor back from Lake Michigan. Railroad connections were made. Against the sky began to rise the jagged outlines of steel mills, foundries, tin-plate plants. Within a year $100,000,000 was dumped into this desolate Indiana waste and out of it by industrial magic rose Gary, great est single steel city in the U. S. A public demonstration occurred in July 1908, when, with the city finished, the first cigar-shaped...
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...each wheat exporting nation. Such rigid control has become increasingly popular in Europe, where "steel cartels" and such are common. Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne of New York has persuaded the world's sugar growers to adopt such a plan, though similar plans failed in the rubber, coffee, tin and several other industries. The U. S. farmer through his representatives in Congress would probably reject working under quota rule and in London last week Mr. McKelvie, knowing this, said...