Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nick of time, the Government caught one conspirator actually handing out cash to soldiers. Bigger fish captured were ex-Minister of War Ernesto Hertzog, two generals, and Lawyer Nestor Galindo, charged with distributing a 20,000,000 peso ($450,000) corruption fund. Biggest fish: German-born Argentine-naturalized Tin Magnate Mauricio Hochschild, jailed as principal...
Hochschfld's arrest meant that the Villarroel Government had declared total war on the three great tin companies (Patino, Hochschild, Aramayo), which traditionally dominate Bolivia. Last President to oppose the tin barons was German Busch, who died in 1939. Officially he committed suicide, but many Bolivians believe that he was murdered...
Company Town. Bolivians call their country a company town. Tin mining supplies 70-90% of Bolivian economy. The 65,000 ragged, sickly miners average about 60? a day, live on the edge of starvation. In December 1943, a revolt of social-minded intellectuals allied with young Army officers attacked tin-company control by driving President Enrique Peñaranda into exile. The people of La Paz ran cheering through the streets, wrecked the office of Aramayo Co., stoned the U.S. Embassy...
From time to time live lice in a linen bag were dipped into the tin: if they lived, logs were added to the fire. Later, bread ovens and even rooms, heated from outside, were used for the same purpose. To prevent clothes from catching fire, paper slips were used as indicators: if they toasted black the temperature was too high; if yellow, just right...
...failure of elegant U.S. Ambassador Pierre Boal, who was inclined to see most things through the eyes of Bolivia's tin-mine owners, to warn Washington of the Bolivian revolution (TIME...