Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tin is Bolivia's most valuable resource, yet the mines might just as well be in another country for all the prosperity they bring. Since nationalization in 1952, Communist union leaders, backed by a well-armed "workers' militia," have ruled the mines, and no government has dared call a halt to the appalling featherbedding, inefficiency and spiraling wages, which result in losses of more than $6,000,000 annually. No government, that is, except the present military junta headed by Co-Presidents René Barrientos and Alfredo Ovando Candia. Last May the two generals drew up a harsh...
Stunted Growth. "Pictures must talk by themselves," Antes says, but many critics see a clue to his stunted gnomes in their resemblance to the deformed dwarf, Oskar Matzerath, of German Novelist Günter Grass's bestseller, The Tin Drum. As Antes seeks to show life from a different perspective, so Grass's Oskar, a moral hunchback who reaches his third year and refuses to grow any more, sees the world from chair level. There are striking parallels, too, between writer and painter. Both were born in the decade that spawned Nazism, both learned their ABCs in Hitler...
...industrial level, the pressure of price rises is, if anything, even greater. There have been recent price increases for copper, brass, tin, 20% of all steel products, and such basic industrial chemicals as sulphuric acid and alum. A 5% price hike by a major maker of machine tools is expected to be followed by others. Textiles are more expensive than a few months ago, and so are electric tape and heating oil. Last week three more producers increased the price of containers-historically a leading indicator of general price movements...
...billion−more than the entire industry's capital expenditures last year−to expand and modernize its facilities. Priority will be given to plants that will produce such products as flat-rolled sheet steel−used in great quantity by Detroit's automakers−and tin plate, highly profitable items that now account for too little a share of U.S. Steel's current production...
...threat of it normally booms the prices of commodities-the raw materials of tomorrow's meals and manufactures. Last week, however, the world prices of such "soft" commodities as coffee, wool and sugar fell, and prices of such "hard" military sinews as copper, tin and lead barely responded to Lyndon Johnson's decision to increase the U.S. commitment in Viet...