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...Tin remained the alpha & omega of Bolivian economy, the source of over two-thirds of the national income and four-fifths of the Government's revenues. But now that the war was over and Malayan mines were back in production, Bolivia's high-cost pits were up against it. Tin barons Patino and Hochschild wanted to shut down marginal mines. Their work ers threatened violence if they did so. The Government was in the middle...
This week Bolivians were hoping to get 9? more than the thumping 67? a Ib. the U.S. paid for tin in 1946. If they got it, the mines might keep going and Bolivia's new President might have a few months of comparative peace...
...hundreds of years, Paris' chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags or an empty tin can. (Their .reward: for a kilo of rags, 4 francs; for a kilo of iron, half a franc...
...Paris press took up the cry, pointed out that the chiffoniers collect on an average each day 400 tons of paper, 200 tons of rags and 50 tons of leather, rubber, bones, iron, tin. copper and lead...
...front of his name (Ir. is a contraction of ingenieur, Dutch for engineer). Soekarno's architectural career was as short as his professional title. He designed a few Chinese homes and was commissioned to do a Moslem mosque (most Java mosques are hideous tin-roofed stucco monstrosities, in contrast to the lovely ruins of the vanquished Hindu temples...