Word: tins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beauties, futbol players and stern-faced priests are tacked indiscriminately around the walls. The house has no water or sanitary facilities; the nearest public bath is six miles away, but Sabino and his wife have not visited it this year. The only sign of civilization that the second biggest tin mine in Bolivia has brought to Huanuni is a 25-watt lamp that hangs incongruously from the thatched roof...
...world's highest capital, rise such steel-and-glass skyscrapers as the 14-story University of San Andres. Shaggy llamas shuffle indolently to the side of the capital's steep, cobbled streets to make way for Fords and Cadillacs. Government officials, demanding emancipation from the tyranny of tin, urge Bolivians to look eastward to the regions where the Andes fall away in giant green gorges called yungas to the Amazonian jungles and Chaco plains. With the aid of a $26 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, Bolivia hopes to finish a highway linking the mountain cities with Santa...
...right & left. Marxist socialism penetrated the universities. Officers of the defeated army organized totalitarian dictatorships. One dictator, pro-Nazi President Gualberto Villaroel, was overthrown after World War II in a fashion so violent that all the world remembers him-hanged from a lamp post before his palace. The downtrodden tin miners, finding a leader of their own in a magnetic, Marxist-minded ex-soccer star named Juan Lechin, rallied to his union and fought bloody battles with company-paid army garrisons...
...Villaroel's Finance Minister, Victor Paz Estenssoro, ran for the presidency from exile in Buenos Aires. He won, only to have the result set aside by an army junta that grabbed power. Egged on by the tin firms, the junta risked the collapse of Bolivia's tottering economy to wage a war of bluff with Stuart Symington, then head of RFC, trying to force him to buy Bolivia's tin for the U.S. near the Korea-scare price of $1.90 a Ib. Soon food ran short in Bolivian cities. Paz's nationalists shouted: "Bread...
...half-literate army bullyboy. Paz was one nationalist fanatic who talked cold business like a businessman, a former economics professor who had balanced a budget and knew the cost of sweeping reform. But with his economist's eyes wide open, Dictator Paz took the plunge by nationalizing tin at once in spite of his empty treasury. It was a political decision. "You forced me to do it," he told a representative of the tin companies...