Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolivian Indians are Andes highlanders who know how to handle llamas, have never won a war. They work in Simon Patino's tin mines, producing one-quarter of the world's tin, avoid the flooded bottomlands of eastern Bolivia and, 3,000,000 strong, have sense enough to rebel periodically against their 250,000 white overlords...
Patiño Tin. Though he would be the last to admit it. Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. is indirectly one of the biggest contributors to the Bolivian cause in the Gran Chaco War. The Bolivian Government finances the war with a "patriotic" tax on exports; Bolivia's biggest export is tin produced by Patiño Mines & Enterprises Consolidated, Inc.; the hungriest consumer of Simon Patiño's tin is the U.S. and in the U.S. the second biggest buyer of the bluish-white metal is Mr. Cornish. Long allied with Senor Pati...
...Cornish's election. It was caused by the revival of peace negotiations between Bolivia and Paraguay. If peace comes, Patiño's mining operations will no longer be handicapped by the hard fact that its best workers have been drafted into the Bolivian Army to fight the little brown men of Paraguay...
...Bolivia, Dec. 18--Eighty thousand men were thrown into action today in the start of one of the bloodiest battles of the Gran Chaco border war when Paraguay launched her preliminary attack on the Bolivian field base of Villa Montes...
Hardly had the Bolivian ballots been counted when the hosts of Paraguay suddenly reappeared before "impregnable" Fort Ballivian. This time they took it without trouble, along with 10,000 Bolivians and $3,000,000 worth of ammunition. This week they are slamming ahead through the Chaco, only 60 mi. from Bolivia proper...