Word: tins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fate of the great tin mines, 72% foreign-controlled (in the U.S., Chile, Switzerland) and source of 80% of Bolivia's foreign exchange, is the revolution's No. 1 question. Paz ran in 1951 on a nationalization platform. His backer, Juan Lechin, Marxist mine labor leader who now holds the new office of Minister of Mine: and Petroleum, is on record that "the workers must equip themselves to run the mine: effectively without the assistance of the owners." Paz almost certainly still intends to nationalize the mines, but he apparently means to go slow. For one thing, recognition...
...most ticklish task was to disarm his own partisans. Some 10,000 of them still had rifles, machine guns and ammunition, supplied during the fighting. Their guns kept La Razón, a tin-interest daily newspaper hated by M.N.R., from publishing. Paz refused to send guards to the plant. Above all, he did not want any more shooting...
...that restless too?" the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley might well shout in chorus. Berlin has published some 850 songs, and 25 of these have been what Tin Pan Alley classifies as not just hits, but Tremendous Hits. White Christmas, for instance, has sold 3,000,000 copies of sheet music and 14 million records. In the words of the music business, it is a "standard," and automatically sells about 300,000 copies every Yuletide season. Presumably it will go on doing so until Christmas is abolished...
...onetime economics professor, Paz has been called everything from "the No. 1 Nazi of the Americas" to "a Communist of the right." Now he says mildly that his first steps in power will be to balance Bolivia's budget and get a higher price from the U.S. for tin...
Bolivia. In this backward, one-crop (tin) republic, 3,200,000 inhabitants (of whom only 130,000 vote) endured their 179th revolution last week (see opposite page...