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...Lease jeeps, invaded the homes of Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Good Neighbor Trouble | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...soon as the Calama Barracks was safely surrounded, the revolutionists in vited the people by radio to a celebration. Street mobs screamed: "Down with the Jews! Down with the North Americans!" They stoned the U.S. Embassy, looted the offices of the Aramayo mining company, tore the roof off President Peñaranda's house, paraded about with the Presidential bathtub over their heads. Soon MNR members with white armbands stopped the party, but the people of La Paz had shown their dislike for the U.S., had cast doubt upon: 1) the U.S. State Department, and 2) the practical effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Good Neighbor Trouble | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...through that rarefied air, burros-even though an extra set of nostrils had been punched through their nasal passages at birth-about 150 Ib. Men were cheaper, but when forced labor was abolished no paid workers could be found for the job. Engineers of Bolivia's Aramayo Mines for ten years figured how to make profits from deep valley gold mining before they realized that the airplane solved their transportation problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Over the Mountain | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Corp. will be privately subscribed, subscribers including Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, Director of Midland Bank (world's largest), Sir John Mullins, whose brokerage firm floats loans for the British Government and the Bank of England, John Howeson, Chairman of Anglo-Oriental Mining Corp., Señior Don Carlos Aramayo, Bolivian Minister to England* and head of Compagnie Aramayo de Mines en Bolivia, great Bolivian tin property. About 80% of British tin producers will be represented in the price control movement and Señior Aramayo's participation is expected to insure support of Bolivian tinmen. Dutch producers have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tin Trust | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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