Word: simon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashionable Paris hotel last week, a lonely and ailing old woman took up the scepter of one of the world's greatest industrial empires. Seventyish Albina Rodriguez Patino, widow of Bolivian Tin King Simon Patino, succeeded him as president of the Patino Mines & Enterprises Consolidated (Inc.), which controls 35% of the world's current tin supply...
...door of the blue marble tomb at Cochabamba, Bolivia, clanged shut last May on the mortal remains of her 84-year-old husband, there was no one left alive who knew as much as she about the building of the empire. She had had as big a share as Simon in creating...
Fool's Silver. Albina Rodriguez had shocked her family and friends by marrying Simon Patino, son of a Spanish-Indian cobbler. Simon, the underpaid clerk of a German merchant, promptly got fired and had to make good on a $250 credit he had advanced to a prospector who had found, not silver, but "worthless" tin in the Andes...
Fair Exchange. In Waukon, Iowa, Mayor Lyle Simon resigned, took over the dry-cleaning business of Ludwig Larson, who took over the mayoralty...
Vachel Lindsay's Simon Legree" in Douglas Moore's choral adaption enjoyed enthusiastic competence at the hands of the Tiger unit. Adept musical comedy touches in the solo made this selection attractive enough to smother the tastes of a poorly-directed "Promised Land" from "Porgy and Bess." In any event football classics such as "Going Back" would up the program to establish a final fresh collegiate taste that spells an audience verdict of success for the annual event...