Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outbursts scorch and blacken the countryside, but they always have a limited objective. In some sectors remote from the heart of Free China, the Japs and the Chinese even, fraternize at arms' distance. Chinese and Japanese officers sometimes share fabulous profits from the smuggling of tungsten, cotton, wool, tin, tung oil, U.S. bank notes. Chinese divisions in the war-quiet areas operate their own factories and farms, direct their energies toward a stable military economy. The Japanese rarely molest them. These activities cannot be judged by Western standards; they are the natural consequences of a long, stalemated war which...
...some 15,000 troops go through their paces with modern weapons (some made in Mexico, some supplied by the U.S.), a small air force (with more trainers than combat craft on view), motorized infantry and cavalry battalions. The troops were disciplined and tidy in olive drab, with French-style tin hats or square, peaked fatigue caps with back-flaps reminiscent of France's Foreign Legion...
...Austin kids first heard New Orleans jazz when a copy of the Friars Society Orchestra "Tin Roof Blues" found its way into the juke box at the Poodle Dog, which was the local version of McBride's without the beer...
...Doll had a sheet-music sale of more than 500,000 copies and a phonograph-record sale of close to a million. It was proving again that yesterday's flop may live to be today's smash, and recalling the story of a very woebegone resident of Tin Pan Alley...
...love affair, by an improvident Broadway dance-hall violinist named Johnny Black. The song did not even find a publisher. Black shelved it and went to work on another, the durable Dardanella, which became the rage of 1919 and has been under continuous revival ever since. But, according to Tin Pan Alley's best-informed chroniclers, luckless Johnny Black sold Dardanella outright for $25, and, when he got around to suing Publisher Fred Fisher, who made a million out of it, netted only...