Word: andes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night fitful fires of Ilama dung and cactus leaves lighted the little camp 13,000 feet up on the cold and terrifying wastes of the Bolivian Andes. By day the treeless wilderness rang with the blows of a crude stone hammer as a swarthy Bolivian and a handful of Indians kept themselves warm smashing rocks. In quest of the precious, bluish-white metal called tin, they found only dull reddish dirt. The Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian...
...Senor Patino is not satisfied with his high Bolivian holdings. In Malaya are tin mines producing more than his, where ore can be produced for shipment more cheaply than in the Andes. Two years ago he got two options on a million shares of British Tin Investment Corp., a holding company. Last week he snapped up one of these options. With his stockholders' approval he began buying 860,000 shares outright, took options on 298,000 more, all at a total cost of ?808,042. If he takes up his last option he will own some 33% and working...
...Harris, another vice president, was unscathed. The pilot, the radio operator and a passenger were killed. Pan American-Grace had its first bad accident two years ago. A plane carrying six passengers and a crew of three took off from Santiago for Buenos Aires, headed inland over the towering Andes. An hour after leaving port the ship's radio before going dead reported thick clouds and snow flurries. The plane never reached Buenos Aires. Heavy snowfalls blanketed the slopes, choked the canyons. No trace of the plane was found by dozens of search parties...
...jointly and equally owned by Pan American Airways and W. R. Grace & Co. (bankers & shippers). It flies the west coast route and the trans-Andean jump in the parent air company's great South American loop. Last week it had flown nearly 5,000,000 mi., crossed the Andes safely 1,200-odd times...
...airplane in their lives. Last spring a transport plane carrying a pilot and two passengers into Oakland, Calif. crashed into a suburban cottage, set it afire, burned ten groundlings to death (TIME, April 3). Last week Lieut. George R. Johnson, an aerial photographer whose discoveries in the high Andes of Peru were world famed, took off from Red Bank, N. J. with an observer in a National Guard plane. Something went wrong with the engine. The plane fell out of control, crashed through a two-story house. The fuel tank exploded, flooding the house with flaming gasoline. Five negroes, including...