Word: tinned
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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...
Short-Term & Long-Term. The first order of business is short-term loans to put Bolivia's nationalized industries on their feet. The tin mines should get $6,500,000 for new equipment and to prospect for new ore deposits. One condition for the loans: the government must fire 5,000 featherbedding miners, devise a plan to relocate them in other jobs. Another loan of perhaps $5,000,000 would buy modern pumping and refining machinery for the state oil company and at least make a start toward rehabilitating the railroads...
...China's Yunnan province, then slowed by silt and sewage on its 1,600-mile run to the South China Sea, is the principal means of transportation and is known as "the soul of Laos." In normal times, the principal exports are illegal opium and a little tin, but in 1960, the main export was words - the $300,000 charged at the cable office to newsmen covering...
Thin Core. In 1954 Bell Labs found that a compound of niobium and tin becomes superconductive at the comparatively high temperature of 18°K (-428°F.).† Later work hinted that the compound might keep its superconductivity in strong magnetic fields. Since it is extremely brittle and cannot be drawn into wires, it was put on the shelf for a while, but eventually Bell Lab scientists patiently learned how to make a tube out of pure niobium, fill it with a mixture of powdered niobium and tin, draw it down to a wire, then heat it to make...
Three of the nine matches went to five games--Lake's, Nelson's and Bob Schwartsman's at seven. Down 2 to 1 in games, Schwartsman rallied to a 10-10 tie in the final game before slipping behind, 13-10. Three shots into the tin by Yale's Fred Smith made the score 13 all, but Smith took all five of the deciding "overtime" points...