Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each lane he snipped lengthened the distance that U.S. aid must go to reach the Indies, Singapore, Burma, China. More important than the rubber, oil, tin, platinum, coffee, quinine which the Jap's conquests brought him was his occupation of key points. A little farther and he could cut off the U.S. from all routes to the eastern battlefront except around Australia. But now the westernmost prong of the Japanese attack, in and around New Guinea, threatened even the U.S. route to Australia and raised yet another rampart across the Americas' Pacific routes...
Died. Doña Elena Patiño, Marquesa de Valparaiso y del Mérito, daughter of Tin King Simón I. Patiño of Bolivia; after a month's illness; in Manhattan. A woman in her early 30s, she had been given a fortune by her fabulously wealthy father when she married, and she became one of the world's wealthiest women when he distributed the bulk of his estate to his family last...
...most common U.S. coins were due for a face-lifting last week. To save copper, nickel and tin, the Mint announced that...
Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping, tin-plate heir and ensign in the Naval air service, bought himself $1,000 worth of custom-tailored uniforms, eight pairs of $50 shoes...
...false, but Mrs. McLean, already at her "post," declared: "We shall remain on duty for 24 hours. Our Motor Corps and emergency kitchen will be drawn up outside the door ready to rush to any spot where there is a disaster. I have sent women downtown to hunt for tin helmets, and others are sewing armbands on their uniforms. I shall stay here all night...