Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windswept field near Bolivia's big Catavi tin mine, President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped to a rude table one day last week and with a golden pen signed the decree nationalizing the country's three big tin companies. Twenty thousand black-shawled women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing...
...want an intelligent man for our President, who do we want? Certainly not a tin soldier whose strings are being pulled by the "Old Guard...
...nationalization of Bolivia's three big tin companies, the revolutionary government handed them a whopping $520 million bill. The government claimed that the companies had made illegal profits by juggling foreign exchange accounts and evading income taxes...
...legalistic appearance of accounting to the last penny, the bill was strictly political. Orators of the government's National Revolutionary Movement have charged for years that the tin companies were getting away with huge sums. Now, by socking the three companies with demands far exceeding their own valuation of their properties ($60 million), the government hoped to prove to its most wild-eyed followers that it had found a way to nationalize without really paying the companies any compensation...
...Captain Apthorpe, who stands for all that is most ridiculous, most pompous, most bumbling and yet most sympathetic in human nature. He has spent most of his life in Bechuanaland, and he joins the Halberdiers with a "vast accumulation of ant-proof boxes, waterproof bundles, strangely shaped, heavily initialed tin trunks and leather cases." As an antiseptic precaution he has his "Thunder Box"-a portable chemical toilet built of oak and brass...