These had come, supposedly temporarily, to work in the tin mines and plantations but were settling permanently and increasingly dominating business and the professions.
Finder's take on the sales rep's trade is as cynical as that portrayed in the movie Tin Men or in the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross.
In 1875, the Constitution found a home in a tin box in the bottom of a closet in a new building that housed the Departments of State, War, and Navy.
The Arno Kit gives you that right out of the tin (I received my loaner model in the proverbial Altoids tin).
Unfortunately the conclusion that many will draw from what happened in Cyprus and previous history is that there is no safe place beyond the old mattress and the tin can in the yard.
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Vuvuzela-makers say they began to mass-produce the instrument in plastic when the original tin version began to make appearances at games during the 1990s.
The country is responsible for half the growth in purchases of aluminum, copper and steel and more than 85% of the growth in tin and nickel.
It only stayed in the black because tin prices were propped up by a producers' cartel.
Billy, the playful computer-generated baby who appears in the short film Tin Toy, helped Richmond, Calif.
The situation has been exacerbated by the depletion of accessible reserves in some major mines and a significant drop in the global prices for tin and tantalum.
Other locals have embraced the new -- and highly controversial -- Black Forest gateau that can be found in a tin, the brainchild of baker Johannes Ruf who runs the Holzoffenbaeckerei in St Peter.
The metal in question is tin, and an oxide of that metal was one of the main ingredients of the cosmetic.
South Crofty originally closed in 1998 after the price of tin hit an all time low, a decrease which started in 1985.
It was Rose who slaved in the Sussex Laundry and washed up in pubs, putting the money carefully into a tin from which George borrowed.
In August 2015, the Tin Homecoming Open Air Cinema will take the film back to its historical setting, with an outdoor viewing at the Botallack cliffs.
After some experimenting, Norton settled on growing tin in the form of needles (about 50 nanometers in length) and adding textures to the material to create more surface area.
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So in June 1995 he turned his back on his 110-foot yacht and a languid Greek summer, and instead sat next to the toilets in a tin shed at Luton airport 30 miles north of London, launching a discount airline modeled after America's Southwest Airlines.
Malaysia has always relied on foreign labour: its substantial Chinese and Indian minorities first arrived in the country in colonial times to work in its tin mines and rubber plantations.
The man who at Christmas in 1996 was responsible for the British army was at Christmas in 1997 spotted buying tin soldiers for his collector brother.
Donaldson happily goes downstairs and prepares the tray, opening a new tin of biscuits in honor of the occasion.
We were a little wary at the first when we heard about tying RFID so closely to our monies, and that Chase Bank blink card of ours has been collecting dust ever since it showed up in the mail, but the latest failings of RFID "security" have us running for the hills -- tin foil hat in tow.
South Crofty mine originally closed in 1998 after the price of tin hit an all-time low.
Housed in a tin shed on the south side of Dallas, Smiley's academy of speed doesn't look like much.
Oz, left to himself, smiled to think of his success in giving the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion exactly what they thought they wanted.
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Although spring weather had come, the watchman still kept a fire burning in a tin pan to warm his feet and to give a center to the group that gathered there.
Representatives of large, sophisticated companies that have been actively working to implement the expected requirements spoke eloquently at an October 2011 SEC Roundtable discussion of the complexity of their supply chains and the difficulty in obtaining solid information from their upstream suppliers on the origins of common, commodity metals like tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold in purchased products and components.
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There were no obvious holes in its corrugated tin roof and the window frames held actual glass.
"I'd put my winning ticket inside a biscuit tin and then in the safe too, so as not to take any chances, " she added.
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