Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shone warm and bright. It looked like another great day for the war-fat Gulf port town of Texas City, Tex.-"The Port of Opportunity." Stores were busy, prosperous people "howdy'd" one another in the streets. Down along the waterfront, $125 million worth of oil refineries, tin smelters and chemical plants labored mightily to assure Texas City's future. Down there too was the only small blot on the day-the French freighter Grandcamp, loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and docked some 700 ft. from the great Monsanto Chemical Co. plant, was afire...
High on the chill slopes of Bolivia's 12,000-ft. altiplano, a cholo (half-Indian) store clerk one day let a prospector settle a $250 account for a claim to a tin mine. The clerk's boss, outraged by the deal, gave him the claim and made him pay the bill. That was how, at the turn of the century, cholo Simón I. Patiño got into the tin business. For years, he and his sinewy wife wielded picks, hauled up buckets, smashed ore. By 1910, they were rich...
...shrewd Tin Baron Patiño did not let diplomatic frippery interfere with business. When the world depression of the 1930s set off a tin crisis, he helped form a cartel with British and Dutch producers. Together, they held prices firm...
...tin can and the automobile (bearings) made Tin Baron Patio one of the world's five richest men. He moved to Europe, lived like a prince among a fawning nobility that overlooked his cholo beginnings. From Paris, Patiño managed Bolivian politics, elected presidents, juggled Cabinet ministers. He had himself appointed Bolivian Minister to France. Son Antenor married the stately Cristina de Bourbon, niece of dethroned Alfonso XIII of Spain...
Friendly, 42-year-old Domkapitular Roth holds regular services in Dachau's 1,500-seat Catholic church, which was built by volunteer SS prisoners and is equipped with an organ whose pipes are made of U.S. Army tin cans. Says Father Roth...