Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left home, and by 17 he was prospering as a pickpocket, pimp and smuggler. After another ten years of wandering, he winds up down the river in New Orleans. His first big money comes from running whorehouses, though the early jazz-band accompaniments nearly drive his tin ears crazy. Prohibition bootlegging eventually accounts for his real power and fortune. While it must be said that Oliver is not Italian, his partners are called Manzini and Lamotta, and he marries into a thriving Sicilian clan. Gradually, all the standard gangland props are assembled: henchmen, reprisals, shootouts at the warehouse, payoffs...
...Acid and Fire. Duc's difficulty is that he has been a particularly outspoken opponent of President Thieu, whom he denounces as serving "the interests of war profiteers, the privileged classes and a foreign power [the U.S.]." Soon after entering Congress in 1967, he founded an antigovernment newspaper, Tin Sang (Morning News), which soon became the most controversial journal in Saigon. He traveled to Paris and called for the withdrawal of foreign troops and the establishment of a neutral provisional government in Viet Nam. Since then, he has had nothing but trouble. Duc was labeled a Communist lackey...
...steel products are so far not affected, there is growing doubt as to whether the industry can make its increases stick in such a soft market. In fact, two weeks ago, Bethlehem and National Steel undercut by as much as 1% the 8% boost posted by U.S. Steel on tin-mill products used in cans. For all the competitive scramble, there are strict limits on the extent to which the industry can cut back or discount its posted prices. The recent settlement with the United Steel Workers will cost more than $1 billion in extra wages and fringe benefits during...
...Khalishpur, the northern suburb of Khulna, naked children and haggard women scavenge the rubble where their homes and shops once stood. Stretches of Chittagong's Hizari Lane and Maulana Sowkat Ali Road have been wiped out. The central bazaar in Jessore is reduced to twisted masses of corrugated tin and shattered walls. Kushtia, a city of 40,000, now looks, as a World Bank team reported, "like the morning after a nuclear attack." In Dacca, where soldiers set sections of the Old City ablaze with flamethrowers and then machine-gunned thousands as they tried to escape the cordon of fire...
Yankees Go Home. Now, however, Thailand's economic climate is turning out to be misty and clouded. The economy is troubled by dropping prices and softening demand for some of its main export items, including tin and rubber. Rice exports, the mainstay of the economy, have been especially poor, largely because Asia's "green revolution" has made rice producers out of countries that formerly were importers. Thailand, under the spell of Mai pen rai and the war boom, failed to diversify its economy. In consequence, the country has a bulging rice stockpile and growing trade deficit...