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Bolivia's missing tin baron suddenly reappeared in La Paz last week. Massive, enormously wealthy Mauricio Hochschild, who vanished on his way to the Chilean Embassy 17 days before, finally turned up there. With him was his general manager, who had also disappeared...
They said that they had spent the entire 17 days together in a room ten feet square. They had slept on mats thrown on the floor. It had been a harrowing experience. Said the tin baron: "There's no mystery." That was all either would...
...Songs. Great popular songs have some distinction of melody, harmony or rhythm. Most popular songs do not- they follow formulas ceaselessly repeated in Tin Pan Alley. So efficiently does the Compos-A-Tune present the Tin Pan Alley formulas that several professional songwriters are already using it as a labor-saving device...
Human Bone Meal. The victims' charred bones and ashes were moved into an adjoining department where an incredible process went on. These human bones were mechanically pulverized, placed inside large tin cans and shipped back to Germany for fertilizing the fields...
Wild rumors flew round Bolivia: Don Mauricio was in New York, was dead, was held by enemies. His tin company offered a reward of one million bolivianos ($23,000), but no news came of his whereabouts. One theory: Hochschild was murdered or kidnapped by friends of Labor Leader José Antonio Arze, his longtime enemy and short-time political ally, who was shot and nearly killed a few weeks ago. Another: Bolivian nationalists, who hate the big tin interests, resented the Government's letting Hochschild out of jail (for connection with an attempted revolution), and giving him permission...