Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Chief of Staff General Antenor Ichazo: "The decree, in my opinion, will serve to revolutionize our economy." What this probably meant was that troops or mobilized civilians can be set to mining tin, tungsten, lead, copper, antimony, harvesting rubber, producing quinine, building roads. Labor for these enterprises has been scarce, and it has sometimes been both obstreperous and ill-treated. Mobilization presumably will not be a boon to Bolivian labor, but it may well increase production of Bolivian war material...
...December 1941, Pacific Tin Consolidated Corp. destroyed its Malayan mines on orders from the British. Result: $10.6 million damage claims filed with the U.S. and British Governments...
...headquarters building one day in a sudden downpour a man who looked like General Patton stood on the roof. He had a tin hat on, his slicker was buttoned close up around his neck. He was looking up at a grey heaven and he seemed to be wondering...
...Change. The nation was full of confounding bustle. The U.S. was wholly in motion for the first time. Every night was like Saturday night. People filled the Broadways and Main Streets, crowded streetcars, buses, factories, restaurants, post offices, stood in line at bars, theaters, nightclubs, bowling alleys. In their tin hats, they worked together in San Francisco shipyards: ex-college professors, white-collar workers, women, Chinese, Italians, Negroes, WAAC uniforms marched two abreast down the narrow sidewalks of Des Moines; WAVE uniforms swished neatly up & down Stillwater, Okla. Soldiers packed the nation's hotels, spilled over into boardinghouses, slept...
...Soper's solution: evaporated canned milk for infants until they can eat a balanced diet; no milk at all for adults. Evaporated milk is sterile, keeps indefinitely in the tin, is always available without waiting for the milkman...