Word: silver
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Subsidizing Deficits. Estimates are that since the Spanish conquest, some $200 billion worth of tin, silver and nitrates has been extracted from Bolivia, largely by absentee mine owners who took their wealth elsewhere. Bolivia's peasant revolution of 1952 led to the nationalization of the richest tin mines. But inefficient operation brought financial ruin. Mine machinery fell into disrepair. The demagogic leader of the tin miners' union, Juan Lechin, forced thousands of featherbedding new workers onto the government mine payrolls. Before nationalization, the mines produced 30,000 tons of tin each year; today they produce only...
Although both the Crimson and Navy had accumulated 28 points at the end of the three-race vacation series at Annapolis, the race committee gave the silver to the Midshipmen. They had a second place, a fifth, and a first to Harvard's fourth place and two seconds...
Although the varsity has placed second in the series twice since 1948, it has not held the coveted silver trophy itself since sophomore John Kennedy won it in June...
Disintegration Ahead. No agreement was possible. Verwoerd and Macmillan retired to another room for a spot of tea. When they returned, tall, silver-haired Dr. Verwoerd had a statement in his hand. He read it: The Union of South Africa was withdrawing from the British Commonwealth, effective May 31, when it would become the independent Republic of South Africa...
...appetites on Esquire's staff before starting Playboy (now worth more than $10 million) with roughly 10,000 borrowed dollars. In seven years, he has shot past Esquire (Playboy's circulation is 1,100,000, Esquire's 859,000). Hefner's enterprises now push sterling silver Playboy cufflinks with bunnies on them, Playboy party kits, three Playboy-produced jazz LP albums, a weekly syndicated television show, and a new Playboy Travel Service, set up to run coeducational tours abroad that "will include all those things that the hip guy wants to see: bullfights, sports-car rallies...