Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of the national advertisements "Chic" Sale philosophized on the rich and poor. Said he: "Well, sir, as long as you are happy, I guess it don't matter where you are. A little tin box of chocolate tablets fits in the pockets of your overalls or it fits in the pocket of your fine longtail dinner coat. That settles it." And the copy continued on the theme: "Happiness isn't a matter of location?you've got to carry it with...
...sullen, the sun rose through oppressive yellow haze over Santo Domingo. Houses remained shuttered, shops did not open, little knots of serious, worried people met on street corners, in the tin roofed ramshackle market. Two flags hung limply on the signal mast of Fort Ozama's 16th century "Homage Tower." There was not enough breeze to spread them from the mast but every Dominican knew what they were: one above the other, two little red flags with square black centres, the most dreadful signal of the tropics, hurricane jacks...
...scornfully predicted that it would collapse in the first puff. It is made in two layers held together by 100,000 rivets. It is much lighter and stronger than wood. For firmness, it was stepped in a water-tight steel tub full of molten metal-"Wood's metal" (tin, lead, and bismuth) which melts at 120°. It is wedged at the deck with hard rubber...
...lead. For the Dancing Masters well know now that it is not their fiat that calls the turn in U. S. dancesteps, but such creations as Gilda Gray's Shimmy, Bill Robinson's tapping, George White's Black Bottom, Schwab & Mandel's Varsity Drag, such agencies as Tin-Pan Alley...
...away at Siemens-stadt technicians of the German Siemens & Halske electric trust were testing the world's loudest loudspeaker. Its powerful diaphragm can make as much music as a 2,000-piece symphony orchestra, as much noise as 500 lusty German kitchen wenches pounding with wooden spoons on tin dishpans...