Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bolivia's missing tin baron suddenly reappeared in La Paz last week. Massive, enormously wealthy Mauricio Hochschild, who vanished on his way to the Chilean Embassy 17 days before, finally turned up there. With him was his general manager, who had also disappeared...
Human Bone Meal. The victims' charred bones and ashes were moved into an adjoining department where an incredible process went on. These human bones were mechanically pulverized, placed inside large tin cans and shipped back to Germany for fertilizing the fields...
...broad daylight, fabulously rich Mauricio Hochschild, most political of Bolivia's three great tin magnates, got into a car with Adolfo Blum, his general mani ager. They drove to the Chilean Embassy in a suburb of La Paz to get a visa so Hochschild could go to Chile. Then they vanished, leaving only an empty car and an echoing mystery...
Wild rumors flew round Bolivia: Don Mauricio was in New York, was dead, was held by enemies. His tin company offered a reward of one million bolivianos ($23,000), but no news came of his whereabouts. One theory: Hochschild was murdered or kidnapped by friends of Labor Leader José Antonio Arze, his longtime enemy and short-time political ally, who was shot and nearly killed a few weeks ago. Another: Bolivian nationalists, who hate the big tin interests, resented the Government's letting Hochschild out of jail (for connection with an attempted revolution), and giving him permission...
...Skelton, his usual fumbling self, plays a song writer who leaves Tin Pan Alley for the life of a freshman at an exclusive girls college in order to keep up with his bride, lovely Esther Williams, who gets our vote as the neatest college instructor of the year. Villain Basil Rathbone tries desperately to break up the marriage but finds himself doing geometry and history assignments instead...