Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile-long warehouses piled high with C-rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into a 10-lb. tin of corned beef with the delicate disdain of an overweight debutante...
...income-austerely. British production had increased about 40% over 1946; the rate of dollar-spending in the first quarter of 1950 had been cut 25% from the first Marshall Plan year. Currently, U.S. stockpiling was bringing an unexpectedly large number of dollars into the sterling area, especially for tin and rubber. Britain's share of U.S. military assistance-still unspecified-would also help keep the dollar gap closed...
...Warned that it would soon be forced to order a cut in the nonmilitary use of tin by "something less than 30%" and that it might ban copper and cobalt for nonessential products where other metals can be substituted...
...Shut off the last trickle of goods to Red China and Manchuria, forcing some already-loaded ships to discharge cargo. The order was specifically worded to catch four ships now at sea, including the Isbrandtsen line's Flying Clipper, reported heading for Tientsin with a cargo of steel, tin plate and pipe...
...brought work home and labored far into the night, frequently calling staff members in for consultation or for rawhiding rebuke. Ruefully, the staff christened their quarters "Soreprat-by-the-sea." Said one staff officer last week: "There are just two things we talk about around here-girls and tin birds. And the general sees to it that it's mostly just tin birds...