Word: tins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...every one of its joints groaning, rounded the side of the mountain, and there, in the valley below, lay my destination. From the bus, Morochata, a town of 500 or so inhabitants, was dwarfed by the huge cliffs that vaulted high into the sky above it. The cluster of tin- and thatch-roofed adobe houses looked fragile at the foot of that implacable slab of rock, whose only distinction from the surrounding stark Andes was its lurid clay-red color, which seemed to brood over some dark mysterious secret life in the village below...
...foodstuffs touched off an uprising by the peasants, who had found it difficult enough to make ends meet under the former price system. They gathered in the main transportation arteries of the country, erected barricades, and threw stones at intervening government troops. Soon their cause was joined by the tin miners, the nation's largest industrial group, who called a two-day wildcat strike to protest the announced rise in prices. Within a week--after almost 100 had been killed, according to the Commission for Justice and Peace, a Catholic organization--the army had quelled all signs of protest...
...Arline Judge, 61, Hollywood glamour girl of the 1930s and '40s (One in a Million, Lookin' for Trouble), who had almost as many marriages as movies to her credit; of an apparent stroke; in West Hollywood. Among Judge's seven husbands were Film Director Wesley Ruggles, Tin Millionaire Dan Topping, and later his brother...
After decades of relative stability, world prices of these materials are taking off on what could be a long climb. Between 1968 and 1973, the average U.S. price of nickel went from 940 per Ib. to $1.53, tin from $1.48 to $2.20 and copper from 420 to 590. In addition, the U.S., in part because of its wealth and power, is unpopular in some Third World nations. With demand for minerals strong, several countries conceivably could reduce exports to the U.S. and find eager buyers to take its place...
...chromium, copper, iron ore and other materials. Proven American reserves of lead total 36 million tons, easily enough to last through this century-and probably a lot longer-because so much lead is recycled. In addition, U.S. industry could substitute amply supplied materials for scarce ones (plastics for tin, for example) or increase the life of most of its finished metals by using much more scrap...