Word: pati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin, biting air of Catavi, 13,000 feet above sea level, the great refining plant last week lay still and smokeless. Past the paymaster's windows shuffled the Indians who dig and smelt a third of Bolivia's tin from the biggest of the Patiño mines. All 7,000 of them were being fired...
...part, Tin Baron Antenor Patiño was far from displeased. His plan was working out. When the company rehired its miners, it would hire only non-union labor, no "agitators." That would break the National Federation of Tin Miners...
...country where tin supplies two-thirds of the national income and four-fifths of Government revenue, Patiño's maneuver was also a political power-play. It knocked the wind out of the six-month-old Government of President Enrique Hertzog. A fragile coalition of pro-mine-owner Conservatives and the Marxist Left Revolutionary Party (P.I.R.), it had held together only because of common fear that the supporters of the late Dictator-President Villarroel, who wound up his career dangling from a lamppost (TIME, July 29, 1946), might stage a comeback...
...Patiño rode out World War II just as easily-first in a six-room suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, later in the Plaza in Buenos Aires. It was in the Plaza this week that Simon Patino quietly died at 86. He will be buried-for the time being-in Buenos Aires. Later he may be carried to the homeland he had not seen for 23 years, to the blue marble mausoleum built for him on the harsh Andean uplands...
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...