Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tin Drum, Grass...
...neutralists were running. On the dusty Plaine des Jarres airstrip, mothers breastfed dirty babies, and children sagged under the weight of parachute packs crammed with household belongings as they patiently waited for planes to evacuate them to the Laotian capital of Vientiane, 120 miles away. In his ramshackle, tin-roofed headquarters, guarded night and day by a patrolling platoon of tanks, Kong Le worked round the clock drawing up a battle plan, although weakened by a liver ailment and a serious sinus condition...
...many developing nations are banding together to impose controls and stabilize prices. The world's major cocoa producers have set up their own organization, and their representatives met last month in Trinidad. Peanut exporters have banded together for self-protection, and so have the world's tin-producing nations, which have set up a sophisticated and successful plan to stabilize prices. Producer-consumer organizations hold the most promise; meeting under United Nations auspices, the major coffee-consuming nations decided last summer to guarantee a set price for coffee if the producing nations will use their profits to diversify...
...Tin Drum, Grass...
...when it went into production of its tough new Delrin plastic-a breakthrough it considers as important as nylon-hardly two years passed before competing Celanese Corp. hit the market with an almost identical plastic developed by its own chemists. U.S. Steel recently developed a new, economical "thin tin" plate-only to find other steel companies out in six months with a thin tin that customers liked better because it gleamed brighter; Big Steel is now copying some of its competitors' gleam-making methods. Sunbeam's new electric skillet was imitated so widely that the market was saturated...