Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the top of that hill we found a little hovel roofed by dripping banana leaves. Into this squalid hole two Chinese had crawled to die. One had already done so. I filled the dying man's rusty tin with water from a stream. He thanked me and fumbling feebly in his clothes offered me a battered cigaret. I did not accept...
According to Bradford Cobb '44. War Service Committee. "The student made a good showing last summer by contributing two wagon loads--all of it grade A scrap--but we hope that they will do even better this time. Tin cans, bottle caps and cost hangers are not wanted. Cobb pointed out, since experience this summer proved that they were more of an annoyance than a benefit...
Since June 1940, every British family has kept its shotgun and poker, pitchfork and flatiron ready to use against invaders whenever the church bells rang. This week the bells broke their long silence. Over tattered city streets, shining holly hedgerows, silvering fields and the camouflaged tin huts of army encampments the rolling echoed, celebrating with propriety victory in Egypt...
Watching White Christmas' sales mount, Tin Pan Alley's song publishers crossed their fingers, wondered whether the good old days of the U.S. sheet-music industry might be coming back. White Christmas seemed to be leading a trend. Sheet-music sales, which during the '20s and '30s slumped badly in competition with popular phonograph recordings, are higher than they have been in 15 years (250,000 copies a week...
...sheet-music sales have paralleled piano sales which rose from a depression low of 22,000 pianos in 1931 to 114,734 in 1941. Last July this upward flight of pianos was abruptly .terminated when the WPB stopped piano manufacture, turned U.S. piano factories into airplane parts plants. But Tin Pan Alley's publishers hope sheet music will go marching on, for the American home is already well stocked with pianos...