Word: bolivian
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...automobile (bearings) made Tin Baron Patio one of the world's five richest men. He moved to Europe, lived like a prince among a fawning nobility that overlooked his cholo beginnings. From Paris, Patiño managed Bolivian politics, elected presidents, juggled Cabinet ministers. He had himself appointed Bolivian Minister to France. Son Antenor married the stately Cristina de Bourbon, niece of dethroned Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...pound price boost (to 76?) on the 20,000 tons it ships annually to the tin-hungry U.S. The U.S. finally offered 74?. Then the Argentines (who are granting Bolivia a $62,500,000 loan) stepped in. Argentina contracted for 8,000 tons a year at the Bolivian asking price and agreed to take 12,000 tons more if no other buyers showed...
...Peron, has succeeded in sweating an important trade contract out of mineral-rich Bolivia and has added another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted its independence in Peron's whiskers and speedily found that all rail lines leading to the frontier-had developed a sudden shortage of rolling stock. The Bolivian...
...remains only the necessity for halting Argentine encroachment by aiding the unproductive states that come under Peron's thumb through their economic dependence. If American farmers can afford to dump leads of potatoes on the ground to protect the market, then they can also supply badly needed foodstuffs for Bolivian miners. A program of adding the economically weak countries of South America to the list of nations benefitting by American food would supply the incentive for vigorous opposition to the evils of Argentine expansion. By capitalizing on the current hatred of Peron, the United States would throttle the latent belief...
...remained the alpha & omega of Bolivian economy, the source of over two-thirds of the national income and four-fifths of the Government's revenues. But now that the war was over and Malayan mines were back in production, Bolivia's high-cost pits were up against it. Tin barons Patino and Hochschild wanted to shut down marginal mines. Their work ers threatened violence if they did so. The Government was in the middle...