Word: tin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American-Hawaiian let out two ships on charter to trie Orient to pick up tin and rubber, strategic materials for which British bottoms are no longer available. At year's end the line declared an extra 50? dividend...
...forget, however, that regardless of what's behind him, be it tin-can or washboard, Jack is considered by most musicians to be one of the greatest and most sincere musicians around. In fact, this reviewer, amongst others, feels that Jack is virtually to the white musicians what Louis Armstrong is to the colored. And the real compliment to his playing genius is that everybody that has ever worked with him perks up his ears when Jack plays--which for pro musicians is something...
...grace of God, 80 beds in the hold. . . . There were over 300 of us in that hold, for besides the survivors from the Yorkshire, the crew of the City of Mandalay, another torpedoed ship, had already been picked up. We were as tight as sardines in a tin, all mixed together in an indescribable hotch potch of black and white bodies. But nothing mattered; everything was heaven. We talked most of the night. I think all of us were a little chary of closing our eyes. I know that I was for one. Whenever I tried to sleep...
...Celina, 15 miles west of Star Point; another at Carthage; a three-story brick business block which Celina still calls "the skyscraper." But to the end of his life he would go off to Florida for the winter with all his clothes in a cardboard valise, a battered tin cup tied to the handle, riding the caboose with the brakemen...