Word: altiplano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers of the Canadian Baptist Mission have spread good works across the windswept barrens of the Bolivian altiplano. The mission has built schools and hospitals for the poverty-haunted tin miners to whom it ministers, given out free medicines, taught converts to speak
...thin, cold air of the Andean altiplano, Bolivia's two-year-old democracy fought for breath to live. President Enrique Hertzog, a doctor experienced in pulmonary problems, had pulled his patient through five states of siege. Last week a fresh complication set in. The doctor himself, worn out and suffering from kidney and heart trouble, took a leave of absence...
...first, the roads were good. Domingo purred along at a comfortable 70 m.p.h. Before reaching Caracas - about 6,000 miles away - the field had to grind up the mighty Andes, race across Bolivia's lofty Altiplano (plateau), span desert land, plunge through an equatorial jungle. For the next 18 days, nobody heard much about the fat undertaker...
High on the chill slopes of Bolivia's 12,000-ft. altiplano, a cholo (half-Indian) store clerk one day let a prospector settle a $250 account for a claim to a tin mine. The clerk's boss, outraged by the deal, gave him the claim and made him pay the bill. That was how, at the turn of the century, cholo Simón I. Patiño got into the tin business. For years, he and his sinewy wife wielded picks, hauled up buckets, smashed ore. By 1910, they were rich...
...regime. Living costs for the nation's 3,500,000 Indians, cholos (half breeds) and whites had zoomed 200% since 1939. Builders had never finished the highway (started with the help of U.S. funds) that would have given underfed population centers on the wind swept, 12,000-ft, altiplano food from the fertile lowlands. The $25,000,000 capital of Bolivia's RFC-like Development Corp. had been heavily tapped without bringing the country nearer to supplying its own essential food and clothing. Landlocked Bolivia still depended on imports for meat and wheat, had not got over...