Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slum dwellers, who live in the tin-shack favelas, rifle garbage as a matter of course. They also follow the gay-looking public markets for scraps to live on. Meanwhile, grocers put prices higher...
...Tin Threat. Many Bolivian regimes (Villarroel's was an exception) have been in the pay of the tin barons. Until Bolivia's economy is broadened or until cheaper Malayan production knocks high-cost Bolivian tin for a loop, tin rule will be a threat...
...members of the junta have a record of past employment with tin barons Simón Patiño and Mauricio Hochschild. There are leftists in the junta too, but no known Communists. Offstage, among the tough Indian miners, there are powerful leftist forces. Now they may go over to scholarly José Antonio Arze who is marshaling his P.I.R. (Leftist Revolutionary Party) for position. But he is torn between desire for power and fear that, once in command, his Socialist program might fail. Marxist Arze, who says he is no Communist, well knows that Bolivian Socialists can never nationalize...
Second prize went to an up-to-date high-school boy for a straw man with burned-out radio tubes for eyes and a larger tube for a tongue. Tin flaps made its cylindrical head revolve in the breeze, scouring every corner of the paddy with its goggle eyes. Mused Judge Okubo: "Scientific and effective...
There is little chance that Bolivia will exceed the 17,600 tons agreed upon. Reason: rising labor costs (up from a prewar 27? per-man-per-day to $2) will force some mines operating on a low profit margin to remain closed. So, with a low tin yield coming in from the rich Far Eastern mines, the CPA expects a short tin supply until...