Word: tins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reasons making the Antofagasta stop worthwhile for all concerned: 1) More U. S. capital is invested in Bolivia (tin, oil) than in any other S. A. country; 2) the U. S. holds all Bolivia's external debt bonds. 3) the Tacna-Arica dispute might be settled some day by letting Bolivia buy back her road-to-the-sea, as suggested by Secretary Kellogg...
Metal Exchange. From 60% to 75% of the world's tin supply is produced in the British Empire, but more than half of it it used in the U. S. The only Tin Exchange in the world was in London until, last week, the National Metal Exchange opened at No. 27 William St., Manhattan. Tin futures ranged from 53.50 (cents per pound) on December deliveries to 52.60 on May deliveries. A pig of tin was ceremoniously installed in a glass case in the Exchange rooms...
Chile has robbed Bolivia of her corridor to the sea (see above) and Nature has perfected Bolivia's woe by dividing the country into two mismated parts. Her lowlands of orange groves and palms are abundant; but almost totally inaccessible from her enormously high plateaux rich in tin. Without borrowing more than she can now borrow it would be impossible for Bolivia to link her highlands and lowlands by rail. As matters stand the problem of transportation is solved by such primitive means that three out of every four employed Bolivians work as carriers. Even so Bolivia...
...prancing bearers proclaimed: "Remember November sixth ? beer!" The swarms of children grew prodigious. Cautioningly, anxiously now the Derby waved. One child run down would cost thousands of votes, perhaps millions. Yet swarming imps were every where, all yelling and grinning, a few tying to the Derby's car tin cans which other imps snatched off, pummeling the tin-cantiers...
...Tin. The new London Malayan Tin Trust Ltd., a merger of 16 Malayan tin producing companies, became active last week by selling £1,249,000 of stock to the public...