Word: tins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tin Pan Alley reads the papers. One day last week, fascinated by a running Page One story, Leeds Music Corp. set Tunesmiths Larry Clinton and Herb Hendler to work. Clinton & Hendler were held up a bit because of their uncertainty as to just how the story was going to turn out. But 48 hours from scratch, they had their song recorded (for King Records), and by next day Manhattan radio stations were booming it on the air. Chorus...
...Dreams (Warner), Hollywood's latest biography of a songwriter, suggests that the inhabitants of Tin Pan Alley, who are sometimes accused of borrowing their songs, also pattern their lives on one another. This time the old, sentimentalized story of humble beginnings, success, defeat and comeback-all neatly studded with song cues-has as its hero the late, prolific lyricist Gus Kahn...
Leontief also stressed the dependency of certain nations on the raw material purchases of the United States and intimated that problems regarding the Bolivian tin situation were responsible for the recent resignation of W. Stuart Symington from the War Resources Board...
...resulting deadlock, the U.S. had to dip into its strategic stockpile, ration tin to industry. Columnist David Lawrence charged Bolivia, in collusion with British-Southeast Asia interests, with "the biggest holdup in the whole field of raw materials," and asserted that its tin owners, "now getting a 100% return on their invested capital, expect even more if the new phases of the blackmail should be successful...
Life & Death. Yet more was involved than exorbitant profits for Bolivian tin magnates. Bolivia depends wholly on tin income. Tin exports provide more than four-fifths of the country's foreign exchange, needed to pay for essential imports, including food. Taxes on tin account for more than half of the government's revenues-and for eight months the companies have been advancing money to the government to keep it going...