Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Señor Foianini engineered expropriation of the Standard Oil Co. of Bolivia's $17,000,000 Bolivian fields. Ranking 28th in the world's 28 major oil-producing countries, Bolivia last year produced only 106,620 barrels (U. S. production: 1,213,254,000). But potentially important oil resources lie in the foothills of the Andes, where, on its 2,500,000 acres, Standard Oil operated six wells on a 55-year contract before expropriation. Last month Senor Foianini arranged two important treaties that made their extensive exploitation possible. Argentina agreed to permit transportation...
...Chaco War began, a captain at 28, major at 29, lieut. colonel before the war ended, chief of staff soon afterward. Meanwhile he married, fathered three sons, was cited for his daring raids; his rescue of a division won him Bolivia's highest military award. He joined all Bolivian military and social clubs, and wrote a book about his explorations...
Rising fast in these tough times was a tough, nervous, roving-eyed, brown-haired young spy named Dionisio Foianini, son of an Italian father and a Bolivian mother. He grew up in the section where Germán Busch was born, not far from most of Standard Oil's Bolivian fields. Dionisio Foianini studied pharmacy in Italy, returned to Bolivia before the Chaco War broke out, was put in charge of munitions manufacture. Then he visited Argentina on a secret mission and organized Bolivian espionage behind Paraguayan lines. Dionisio Foianini rushed to the Chaco when the war ended, persuaded...
...leaving the President and Minister Foianini to scribble out a program for the first classically totalitarian State in the Western Hemisphere.* At 6 a. m. they completed a proclamation not only abolishing the Senate, Chamber of Deputies, the Constitution, all courts, all legal codes, but establishing a dictatorship over Bolivian political, financial and social life. They denied, however, any connection with the Rome-Berlin Axis. At 10:30 the proclamation was released. The public was more apathetic than surprised...
...small one in Alaska. Basic war material, indispensable for the manufacture of bearings, tin travels far to reach its biggest market. There are big smelters in the Malay Peninsula, in The Netherlands and Great Britain, but the small smelters of the U. S. refine only a minute proportion, and Bolivian tin reaches the U. S. after a trip to Britain. Facing a possible war shortage, Bolivian tin has figured largely in recent proposals to barter surplus U. S. commodities for war materials...