Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plots & Feathers. Barrientos offered little evidence of an impending revolt. But he had plenty of other reasons to get rid of Lechin. As boss of the country's 26,000 tin miners, the former Vice President had been doing his best to complete the destruction of Bolivia's economy by refusing to cooperate in a program to reform the country's nearly bankrupt Comibol tin-mining enterprise...
With Communists deeply rooted in the unions, Bolivian tin production has slipped 30% since the 1950s; annual losses run to $6,000,000. Of the 26,000-man payroll, fully 7,000 are feather-bedders. So severe is the crisis that the U.S., West Germany and the Inter-American Development Bank have cut off the third phase of a $38 million mining-development program. Yet Le chin had discouraged every attempt to cut costs, either by reducing the work force or by modernizing the mines...
...Down with the Boot." Predictably, Lechin's Bolivian Labor Confederation called a general strike that shut down the railroads, factories, textile mills and tin mines. In La Paz itself, 4,000 factory workers shouting, "Down with the military boot!" sacked and burned the office of the military's domestic airline before police rifle fire dispersed the mob, killing one rioter and wounding 19. The demonstrations went on for six days. Then the workers started trickling back to work, leaving only the miners still storming around...
Like his other books, The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse, and like the rest of the new generation of German fiction, it deals with the Nazi era. Dog Years is powerful, jumbled, symbol-cluttered, too long, exhausting. It drifts in and out of fantasy, scratches at memories as if they were swords too dangerous to grasp, and says nothing directly. The narrative follows, circles about, sniffs at, is diverted from, and returns to the careers of two friends, boys who were born in 1917 in a fishing village on the Baltic...
More Fingers. Grace, which also produces oil, paper, tungsten and tin, is not certain in which.direction it will expand next, but it is currently spending $17 million annually in research to find out. Says Peter Grace, who mixes his metaphors as successfully as he does his chemicals: "The more fingers we have -the more strings to our bow-the faster we accelerate. As we get bigger, we have more money to build more plants, and more possibilities open...