Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Police. Still convinced that the real villain back of the bathroom bombing was none other than ex-Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez, Great Detective Delgado raided La Purisma Market, formerly operated by the municipal administration of Senor Gomez, discovered a complete bomb factory, 200 pounds of dynamite, fuses, tin cans, other impedimenta, not counting piles of rifles and revolvers. Lieut. Calvo did even better. He found a bomb factory and arrested the operators. Scouring the cliffs above Havana along the Almendares River intrepid Lieut. Calvo popped into a cave, pulled out one Andres Niebla Torres, one Luis Mutiz...
Over the wall of the old Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet one night last week clambered three long-term prisoners. They had been detailed to early morning duty in the bakery, had overpowered a guard, made a ladder of oven poles, a cable of wire and tin cans. Guards, who had lain in wait for the break for three weeks, flashed floodlights, opened fire with machine guns as the last man swung down the cable. Paralyzed with fear, he hung for a moment in the glare before being swept off, slug-riddled. His two companions were also killed. When...
...Army, too, last week was talking dirigibles. Last fortnight the House passed a $200,000 appropriation for preliminary engineering by Detroit Aircraft Corp. on a proposed metalclad Army ship designed on the principle of the ZMC-2 ("Tin Bubble") built by D. A. C. for the Navy two years ago. It would be larger than the Los Angeles, would cost...
Russians love arguments. A thousand times in black-&-white, Soviet editors have argued that the U. S. "must" recognize Russia. To the tail of this great argument last week Isvestia, official organ of the Communist Party, tied like a shiny new tin can the report on Communists in the U. S. of the U. S. Congressional committee chairmanned by Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. (TIME, June 2, et seq.). "For the Congressional committee," said Isvestia, "to oppose recognition of the Soviet Union and simultaneously to demand official United States investigation of labor conditions within the said union - that is literally...
...prohibit definite price agreements. Copper producers now are attempting to curtail production, but the price was back last week to 10? after its recent jump from 9? to 12? (TIME, Nov. 24). The world copper situation is complicated by potential African production which may soon overbalance U. S. curtailment. Tin. Attempts to curb tin production have been hindered by the rivalry between Bolivia and the Far East, and the introduction of much modern equipment into the latter territory. In London last week the world's tin producers met, sought to limit production. Silver. An abrupt decline in silver...