Word: tins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tin Roof (by Tennessee Williams) shows again what potentialities its author has and demonstrates what power. But it remains a demonstration rather than an achievement. There is no question how hard Williams can hit, or how vividly he can write, or that, in a theater full of feigned and borrowed emotions, his are honestly hot and angry. But his own feelings, often intemperate, work against him. Perhaps it is the revenge of an age of violence on those who mirror it, that they should themselves seem violent where they mean to be intense, should too often mistake blind assault...
Much of Elia Kazan's staging adds force and vividness, and so does much of the acting-particularly Burl Ives as the doomed father and Barbara Bel Geddes as the desperate wife, insecure as a cat on a hot tin roof...
Self-Solder. For the amateur solderer the Hercules Chemical Co. of New York City put on the market Swif, a regular tin-lead solder in a plastic tube. The do-it-yourselfer squeezes on Swif as he would toothpaste, then seals the joint with heat from a match, cigarette lighter or electric iron. Price: 59½ per 1½-oz. tube...
...plate. The booming construction industry was putting the pressure on producers of galvanized sheets, while appliance makers, striving to furnish the nation's new houses, were ordering enameling sheets for delivery months in the future. To stock the kitchen shelves, the canning industry boosted its orders for tin plate, with the seasonal high still to come...
...steep tumble in coffee prices was balanced by an air of inflation in other commodity markets. Tension in the Far East touched off a wave of buying in tin, lead, zinc, rubber. Malayan tin rose 2¼? to 92? a lb., rubber to a new 1954-55 high of 37¼ a lb. Copper supplies were tighter than at any time since the scare-buying at the start of the Korean war. Reasons: a month-old strike at the big Northern Rhodesia mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market...