Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weak Flanks. A German Army officer in World War I and a fighter versed in military strategy, Alberto Goldschmidt went to South America in 1934 to advise the Bolivian Government in the Chaco war. When war's end stranded him in Santiago, he stayed on to work for La Hora...
...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...
Died. Simón I. Patiño, 86, Bolivian tin king whose whopping fortune (estimate: $300-$500 million) got bigger almost every time a housewife opened a tin can; in Buenos Aires (see LATIN AMERICA...
...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...
...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...