Word: tins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steel Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Eddie Albert in Tin Wedding...
...legal. But there was a great deal of argument over the ethics of using the unseen screen. ¶In Madison, Wis., the director of the state branch of the American Automobile Association publicly denounced the meters as an affront to law-abiding drivers. ¶In Rochester, motorists who put tin foil or steel marbles in their hubcaps in an unsuccessful effort to foul the detectors were charged with attempting to obstruct justice as well as with speeding.† ¶ In Manchester, Conn., the Chamber of Commerce and auto dealers protested bitterly to the chief of police because he was enforcing...
President and the Senator talked about tin mining. Fresh reports disclosed that loyal forces were now fighting back strongly in Cochabamba. Capehart chewed on his cigar. Another telegram told how a boy on a bicycle had ridden, like a young Paul Revere, to the nearby town of Ucurena to alert the area's Indian farmers and tin miners to mobilize against the rebels. The President, the Senator and their aides calmly moved on to the U.S. embassy for a reception honoring Capehart. There, just after 1 p.m., messengers brought the victory report: "Cochabamba is ours...
...decreed an ambitious welfare program costing $33 million (TIME, Aug. 31). But there was still a surplus. So the young Sultan cast a philanthropic eye on Malaya, a neighboring, blood-related British protectorate, which was bravely mopping up Communist guerrillas and was hard up for money owing to falling tin and rubber prices...
...hero (Jeff Chandler) is the strong, noisy type: all things to all men, but just one thing to women. Off to a jungle island to shovel out some tin, he first digs a blonde (Marilyn Maxwell). The next thing that comes to hand is a native princess (Suzan Ball). Eventually, Jeff gets fed up with his babes in the woods, and goes to bed with a bottle of whisky. "Sleep," he murmurs, "that's the stuff that knits the raveled sleave of care." But one session with Bartlett does not make an egghead, and next day Jeff is right...