Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot, running with car wheels and bodies tucked under their arms. To the chagrin of the boys, a girl won. She was Amelia Aparicio, 13, who had averaged 19 miles an hour in a car designed by her mechanic father. Exclaimed Amelia: "I came determined to win for the Bolivian woman...
Having failed to rouse the citizens of La Paz to fight as they did in 1946, the rebels surrendered. Probably 50 had been killed, over 200 wounded in the fighting. Among 400 prisoners were leaders of the Bolivian Confederation of Labor and Sergio Almaraz, the leading Bolivian Communist. At week's end the schoolteachers accepted a flat 10% pay raise (they had originally asked for a sliding scale ranging up to 70%), and the general strike seemed to be broken...
Until a better word comes along to denote that process, the dazzled layman can only call it education. Coca-Cola coolly takes hold of Japanese capitalists, Italian intellectuals, German bureaucrats and Bolivian laborers and trains them to do a series of specific jobs in every move and thought the way they are done in America. What is more, the trainees like...
Having beaten down half a dozen uprisings and one full-scale civil war in three years, Bolivian officials moved swiftly to meet another crisis last week. "In view of irrefutable evidence that subversive preparations were afoot," suave, bearded President Mamerto Urriolagoitia ordered the exile of ten civilians and army officers (including one general) and slapped on a drum-tight state of siege...
...Washington, Bolivian representatives urged the U.S. to stockpile Bolivian tin at a price around 90? a lb. Reluctant to pay a bonus of 12½? a lb. above the world price, U.S. officials stuck to the view that the Bolivians would have to continue to help themselves. With little else to sell in the world but high-cost tin, and with their unemployment rolls growing daily, Bolivians could look forward to a long siege...