Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of a recent address which inaugurated the Toulouse Fair, former premier of France Andre Tardieu adopted an original method of reply to political hecklers who attempted to interfere with his speech. When booes and hisses greeted his remarks he drew a tin whistle from his pocket and outnoised his opponents in a truly stentorian manner...
...enemy in a beleaguered post while the main body of troops retires-has possibilities. Each man, faced with almost certain death, tells how he came to go to war. But things get started too slowly. Several dozen U.S. flags, tons of dynamite, miles of barbed wire, thousands of tin hats, intended to galvanize the horror into realistic terms, merely become constituents as familiar and therefore as unnoticeable as the advertisements for grain and hardware, on the backdrops of rural vaudeville houses. Best sequences: James Gleason, henpecked husband of a knife-thrower, telling why he went...
Then there are standard quarts and bushels, standard tin cans and hotel dishes, machines which weigh an electron, others which weigh bridges. They bend steel girders at the bureau and blow up steel tanks. One device, an interferometer, indicates how far a 40-in. brick wall is deflected by the pressure of one hand. They have an ultramicrometer which measures a movement of one-millionth part of an inch. But it is "too sensitive for any known...
...largest horsemeat packing plant in the world is in the U. S.?P. M. Chappel's canning factory in Rockford, 111. Organized in 1920, the Chappel cannery sliced up approximately 60,000 horses last year, wrapped most of them in tin, stuffed them in barrels, exported them for human consumption to France, Holland, Italy, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Most of the raw material was wild range horses raised on 15 Chappel-owned ranches, which total 1,500,000 acres, in Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming. Chappel products are several? puppy ration, kitty ration, kennel biscuit, pheasant meal...
...song lyrics in Manhattan, June Moon builds a satire on song writers and their lady friends, their bons mots and their ridiculous but engaging selfimportance. The scatter-brained youth meets a girl on the train who falls in love with him. He re-turns to her after adventures in Tin Pan Alley. These include advances made by the cold-hearted mistress of a music pub- lisher, committing malapropisms which cause him to be the butt of Broadway tune-sharpers. Finally he gets $2.500 for a song, because he has given the publisher a good excuse for getting...