Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emergency bill to the President authorizing the General Services Administration to sell 2,000,000 Ibs. of goosefeathers and down (used in sleeping bags, flight jackets, survival suits), which it has been hoarding since 1947 (along with iodine, opium, castor oil, sperm oil, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, instruments, missiles, aluminum, tin, zinc, lead, nickel, bismuth and platinum). When Delaware's Senator John Williams asked how many feathers the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization had collected, he was told that the information was classified...
...McBee. 28. the town's ecstatic urban renewal director, promptly set about spending the money. McBee has mapped a 75-block area that includes practically all of Wink. In that space, 192 buildings will be torn down, ancient automobiles long rusting on vacant lots will be hauled away, tin shacks thrown up by the vanished oilfield riggers will be demolished. McBee has already bought eleven pieces of property, has options on 92 more. When the land is assembled, it will be sewered, paved, sprinkled with new stores, off-street parking. malls, homes, an industrial park...
...tion, which faces on West Berlin, was bricked up. Apartments fronting on the border have been bricked and boarded up on the first floors, and their tenants relocated. The upper floors still offer an uncertain access to freedom. On the side walk of No. 48 Bernauerstrasse, a wreath and tin can of flowers mark the place where a woman leaped to her death trying to escape. But last week a young student knocked on the door of a second-floor apartment on Luckauerstrasse. When it was opened, he raced through it, leaped safely out the window into West Berlin...
Short years ago, marauding Communists turned placid plantations into armed camps, terrorized the countryside and threatened the emergence of Malaya as a free nation. But with British help, Malaya beat back the Red challenge. And thanks to its rich endowment of rubber and tin, the country's economy prospered. Last year Malaya topped all other nations in the production of both items (709,000 tons of rubber, 50,000 tons of tin), sent enough abroad, mostly to the U.S., to boost its foreign exchange reserves to a healthy $430 million. More than 95% of Malaya's children attend...
...political parties, waiting their chance to try a comeback. On Malaya's east coast fanatic Moslems in the Pan Malayan Islamic Party preach Malay race supremacy over the Chinese. Any downward plunge of the economy-always a possibility should there be a precipitous drop in world rubber or tin prices-would strengthen the extremists. "All this implies a state of balance so precarious.'' says U.S. Far Eastern Scholar Willard Hanna, "that one stumble might lead to disaster. The miracle is that so far no one has stumbled...