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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Financial mainstays of German Busch's new Bolivia were to be the properties of Standard Oil, which he confiscated in 1937, and of foreign mining interests. Capital to build Government-dominated tin foundries (the Bolivian mines of Tycoon Simon I. Patiño produce about 15% of the world's supply) was being sought in Manhattan last week by Busch's Minister of Mines & Petroleum Dionisio Foianini, son of an Italian father and Bolivian mother, second husband of a girl from New Haven, Conn, whom a Bolivian artist took home with him from Yale...
...Paso County, Colo., a rancher appealed for protection from a WPA project to build one of 22,000 outdoor toilets on his place. Answered the Colorado Public Utilities Commission: it had no jurisdiction. Reason: outdoor privies are not public utilities...
...miles north of Constantsa. There lay small Lake Tashaul, nearly dry, with a narrow channel leading through sand dunes to the sea. There was no town near by; the country beyond the lake was devoted to sheep raising. This, said the British Admiral, was the place to build Rumania's great Naval base, home of the dreamed-of Rumanian Black Sea Fleet. It was also a convenient spot for refueling, since it was close to Rumanian oil fields, if the British Navy ever needed...
...beginning in 1893 of another unsuccessful attempt by another French company to build the canal...
More significant: before adjourning three weeks ago Congress authorized (although it has yet formally to appropriate) the expenditure of $277,000,000 to build a third set of locks (see map). These will: 1) take care of 45,000-ton battleships, now abuilding, which will be too big for the present locks, 2) provide an alternate route if one set of locks should be wrecked by enemy bombing planes. Meantime, the Army announced a plan to spend $53,000,000 on new defenses in the Canal Zone. For the Canal's second quarter-century may be as important...