Word: tins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Green was apparently a bit of an eccentric. The will disposing of the bulk of the fortune was found by her attorneys with four cakes of soap in a tin cabinet in her New York apartment...
...connection with Britain; today its fierce "Boer" Nationalists, led by Prime Minister Daniel Malan, cast envious eyes at the unplowed ranges and abundant black labor in the colonies north of the Limpopo River.* In booming West Africa, which produces 45% of the world's cocoa, 8% of its tin, the black man has emerged from the jungle and demands his place...
...enough to keep him busy. So in 1950 he became chief counsel to Senator Lyndon Johnson's "watchdog" committee on preparedness, even though he had to do most of his work at night. He was largely responsible for the committee's reports on wasteful military spending, tin...
...windswept Bolivian tin-mining center of Oruro, garishly garbed Indian miners paraded through the streets last week behind some 60 mules and oxen laden with silverware and assorted household objects. Arriving at the Church of the Virgin of the Cave, patroness of Oruro tin diggers, the marchers symbolically offered their silver and china to the Virgin -just as their ancestors brought metal and pottery objects to their gods to seek good fortune. Then an Indian cast in the role of Lucifer, masked and cloaked in red velvet, capered into the area before the church doors. Thus began La Diablada...
...week found itself a defendant in the criminal dock at Old Bailey. The charge: aiding & abetting corrupt practices during Britain's last election. Just before the election, the Times and other papers had carried, as an advertisement, a special report to stockholders by a group of British-Malayan tin companies which concluded: "The nation, let alone your valuable companies in Malaya, cannot survive if the worm of Socialism is permitted to continue...