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...wanted to see the goddam country again but now it looks like heaven." Some of the men had their eyes closed. Over the faces of some, blankets had been drawn. As the wounded and the dead came back, other soldiers, with flowers stuck in the camouflage netting of their tin hats, marched past them through the streets of the English town. They avoided looking at the returning troops. Now it was their turn...
...began, he told Harvard students that war was not much worse than "crossing the traffic in Harvard Square." In 1940 Dr. Elliott went to Washington as consultant for the National Defense Advisory Commission; the next year he became OPM's raw materials expert, loudly urged stockpiling of tin, rubber, etc. He rightly predicted that the U.S. might soon be cut off by Japan from its chief supply sources. Surviving the transmutation of 0PM into WPB, he became its chief of Stockpiling and Transportation. So good was his stockpiling job that WPB is now worrying about its surplus metals. Lately...
Scanty reports from Bolivia last week indicated that President Villarroel and his Government of young Army officers and intellectuals were again at war with the tin companies. Hochschild again was the chief antagonist. Patiño was in Montreal. Dapper Aramayo had ducked into sanctuary in the Spanish Embassy...
...turned to Bolivia, began to apply modern techniques to abandoned, worked-over tin mines. Since then he has branched into copper, zinc, silver, tungsten-a variety of mine holdings which eventually exceeded those of Simón Patiño. A few Bolivians welcomed Hochschild and his up-&-coming ways; others cursed him for stimulating the specialized mining economy which caused Bolivia's underpaid, tuberculous, ill-fed masses untold misery, and prevented diversification which might have made a healthier economy...
Political Magnate. Soon after he started his Bolivian career, Don Mauricio began to dabble in politics. His object, shared with the rest of the tin trinity: to keep a "sympathetic" government, which would hold miners' wages and standards of living to the lowest possible level. German Busch, the last President who tried to buck Hochschild & friends, slapped him in jail, would have shot him except for powerful intervention reportedly by the U.S. and Argentina. (Hochschild has a convenient Argentine citizenship.) Soon afterward, Busch died (official explanation: suicide...