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...windswept Bolivian tin-mining center of Oruro, garishly garbed Indian miners paraded through the streets last week behind some 60 mules and oxen laden with silverware and assorted household objects. Arriving at the Church of the Virgin of the Cave, patroness of Oruro tin diggers, the marchers symbolically offered their silver and china to the Virgin -just as their ancestors brought metal and pottery objects to their gods to seek good fortune. Then an Indian cast in the role of Lucifer, masked and cloaked in red velvet, capered into the area before the church doors. Thus began La Diablada...
...Divine Orpheus), these religious dramatizations, similar to the earlier English mystery plays, reached their peak popularity. After that, their appeal dwindled and they all but disappeared from the holy-days celebrations outside the churches of the Spanish-speaking world. But in remote Oruro, 12,000 ft. up in the Bolivian Andes, the auto still flourishes with strong Indian overtones, and last week, as usual at carnival time, the show...
...price was a compromise. The U.S. wanted to pay $1.12; the British producers wanted $1.25. Since Malaya produces 34% of the world's tin, the new price may well establish the price pattern for Bolivian and Indonesian metal. In any case, the new flow of tin from Malaya will ease the drain on the U.S. stockpile...
Leontief also stressed the dependency of certain nations on the raw material purchases of the United States and intimated that problems regarding the Bolivian tin situation were responsible for the recent resignation of W. Stuart Symington from the War Resources Board...
Life & Death. Yet more was involved than exorbitant profits for Bolivian tin magnates. Bolivia depends wholly on tin income. Tin exports provide more than four-fifths of the country's foreign exchange, needed to pay for essential imports, including food. Taxes on tin account for more than half of the government's revenues-and for eight months the companies have been advancing money to the government to keep it going...