Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-aircraft station in the south of England the siren murdered sleep. Eight girls of an ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) crew slapped on tin hats, raced for the gun pit. Jerry was upstairs. The detectors had him pegged...
...only can-making factory in Venezuela will close within two weeks, for lack of imported tin plate...
...20th Century-Fox) is the kind of bright, tuneful, lighthearted musical that was once Broadway's dish. It has the authentic Tin-Pan Alley touch-gilded by the nostalgic charm of the nicely naughty '90s. It also has so many other good things that it is a rare cinema treat...
...election meant, more than a change of seats, a change of viewpoint. It was the end of an era. Long, lean Songwriter Gene Buck had been since 1925 chieftain of ASCAP, the clangorous music-writing clan that embraces everything from Tin Pan Alley to Rachmaninoff. A friend of Victor Herbert, for 20 years Florenz Ziegfeld's right-hand man, writer of 500 lyrics (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time), Buck served ASCAP from 1925 to 1929 without pay. Later he drew a $50,000-a-year salary, which he voluntarily cut to $35,000 a year ago, after ASCAP entered...
There are about 2,000,000 tons of tin cans discarded annually in the U.S., of which an estimated 700,000 tons might be collected, shipped and processed economically. Today, the toughest problem facing WPB planners is getting greater detinning plant capacity. Of the seven large plants now in operation, Metal & Thermit Corp. (East Chicago, Ind.; South San Francisco; Carteret, N.J.) and Vulcan Detinning Co. (Neville Island, Pa.; Sewaren, N.J.) do about 85% of the business. New plants are being built by the Defense Plant Corporation at Houston, Dallas, Kansas City...