Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little list. Sets are far handsomer than any ever seen on the Savoyard stage. Sound recording is approximately perfect. On close inspection, cinemaddicts will note that the Mikado's story conforms strictly to Boy-Meets-Girl pattern; and that Gilbert & Sullivan have not yet been topped by Tin Pan Alley...
Popular hero of an exhausting war, Germán Busch was born in 1904 in the hot, fertile, coffee-growing region of central Bolivia, midway between the edge of the Chaco and the rust-colored, tin-filled mountains around La Paz. His father, after stopping three arrows in an attack by savages, went to Germany, sent Germán and his mother to Trinidad. Germán went to a provincial school, entered military college...
...inconclusive Chaco fighting was that, where they met on equally favorable ground, Bolivia's German-trained divisions were roughly handled by Paraguay's French-trained Army. Sick of the war, Bolivians were made sicker by bad times. Bolivia holds 15% of the world's tin supply and output fell from 43,300 tons in 1929 to 25,000 in 1935. Tin makes up 70% of the value of Bolivia's exports...
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Main U. S. interest in Bolivia is still tin. The U. S. imports about 45% of the world's tin, has no mines in her own boundaries, a small one in Alaska. Basic war material, indispensable for the manufacture of bearings, tin travels far to reach its biggest market. There are big smelters in the Malay Peninsula, in The Netherlands and Great Britain, but the small smelters of the U. S. refine only a minute proportion, and Bolivian tin reaches the U. S. after a trip to Britain. Facing a possible war shortage, Bolivian tin has figured largely...