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Word: tins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...known that the U. S. had arranged to make $100,000,000 available to China. Half of this would come from the Treasury's stabilization fund to support Chinese currency ; half would be put up by the Export-Import Bank, against Chinese shipments of wolframite (tungsten ore), antimony, tin, for the U. S. strategic materials stockpile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Before Departure | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...French Indo-China Japan was reported to have served up a fresh set of demands, including control of Saïgon, further bases in the Gulf of Tongkin and along the South China Sea coast, Indo-China's entire exportable surplus of rubber, tin, rice, lead, zinc and tungsten. These would give Japan a new source of supplies with which to resist a blockade, would put her in a position to harass the British at Singapore and the U. S. at Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Last Card | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...while Eugene S. Austin '42 is experimenting with a lighted metal mural for an airport. A potter's wheel has been built for experimenting in ceramics. The sixteen students enrolled in the advanced 2b course, now in its first year of existence, are also creating "interpretations" in wood and tin, drawing and painting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREATIVE INTERESTS STRESSED OVER EXAMS, LECTURES IN UNIQUE COURSE | 12/5/1940 | See Source »

...fact that the pastor never fights. Not once did he even strike a strom trooper. Not once did he exhort his parishioners to do so. He is the "turn-the-other-cheek" type of Christian. Yet Jimmy Roosevelt ('37) tries to transmute this inspiring figure into a little tin Christ. If it weren't so ominous, we could afford to laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/29/1940 | See Source »

...they had apparently nabbed none. Not thus inhibited was Martin Dies. Last week he announced that he and his committee had compiled a fat tome on sabotage agents, intimated that shortly he would release it to press and public. It may need fast editing to be up to date. Tin's week, the main building of the American Cyanamid plant at Bridgeville, Pa. was wrecked by an explosion; the tiny plant of Pennsylvania Chemical Corp. at Johns town was destroyed by fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Accident or Villainy? | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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