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...Materials..Truman and Churchill agreed on an exchange of U.S. steel for Malayan tin (see BUSINESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Give & Take | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...compound went on a rampage and drove their guards from the enclosure. Before the guards could be sent back in at bayonet point and behind a barrage of concussion grenades, the Communists dragged one suspected renegade to the fence, pulled out his tongue, cut it off with tin shears, then beat him to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY: Beggars' Island | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...handful of Communist-led bandits lurking in Malaya's jungles have terrorized the country, kept an army of British regulars and natives (140,000 at present) on the alert, and cost the government some $140 million a year. The cost to the world in lost Malayan rubber and tin may have been far more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Firm Appointment | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...Government, which went on a buyer's strike against world tin prices last March, ended it last week. The terms of the settlement were something less than a U.S. victory. They were part of a U.S.British swap of raw materials, worked out by President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Swap | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

School of Experience. In Denver, Waitress Evelyn Marshall, yielding to "a sudden impulse," dived out her fifth-floor window, buckled a tin ventilator shaft on the second floor, bounced off a car top into a parking lot, suffered only a broken tooth and a stomach ache. Soberly she told physicians: "This has taught me a lesson. I'll never jump through the window again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 21, 1952 | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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