Word: tins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tin-Scan Alley...
...alone, though commercial and strategic stockpiling accounted for some of it. Britain's hasty attempt to find oil somewhere else than Iran, for example, would cost $300 million a year. Even more serious was the drop in the world price of sterling commodities such as wool, rubber and tin, with no commensurate drop in the price of dollar commodities...
...Henry replied in kind:' "We are fighting militant Communism and we intend to finish it off." With calm assurance, he urged planters and tin miners to stay at their posts. He pleaded with Whitehall for more troops, built up the native army from four to six battalions, and launched a vast resettlement scheme to separate the Communists from their sources of supply. His men razed whole villages for aiding the Reds and penned up 120,000-Malayan Chinese. He constantly left his snug headquarters at Kuala Lumpur to roam the jungles in his car, his official red-striped pennant...
...horizons looked bleak enough for Gwilym (Welsh for William) Price in his Pennsylvania boyhood. At 16, when his father, a tin-mill worker, died, young Bill had to quit school to go to work. He studied stenography, clerked by day and read law at night. In 1917, he was the University of Pittsburgh's youngest law graduate (22). After a World War I stint overseas as a tank commander, he became a trust officer for what is now the Peoples First National Bank & Trust Co. At 44, he became the bank's president. In the following three years...
Since then, Director Bear has played host to some 75,000 visitors a year. "It's a wonderful location," says he. "People come in to look at a show between bus stops." With no regular purchase budget ("We operate with blue glasses and a tin cup"), Bear still does a lot of borrowing. But he manages to have 60 to 70 exhibits, large & small, every year. One of his big drawing cards is a permanent collection which includes some fine classical sculpture and one of the best small galleries of Oriental...