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...Magnate. The Government had jailed the most active member of Bolivia's trinity of tin barons. The others: elderly Indian Simón Patiño (called one of the richest men in the world), who has not visited Bolivia since 1923; and elegant, Oxford-bred Carlos Victor Aramayo, who looks in remote La Paz like Anthony Eden in exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Don Mauricio | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Hochschfld's arrest meant that the Villarroel Government had declared total war on the three great tin companies (Patino, Hochschild, Aramayo), which traditionally dominate Bolivia. Last President to oppose the tin barons was German Busch, who died in 1939. Officially he committed suicide, but many Bolivians believe that he was murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Why Smitest Thou Me? | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Company Town. Bolivians call their country a company town. Tin mining supplies 70-90% of Bolivian economy. The 65,000 ragged, sickly miners average about 60? a day, live on the edge of starvation. In December 1943, a revolt of social-minded intellectuals allied with young Army officers attacked tin-company control by driving President Enrique Peñaranda into exile. The people of La Paz ran cheering through the streets, wrecked the office of Aramayo Co., stoned the U.S. Embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Why Smitest Thou Me? | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

From time to time live lice in a linen bag were dipped into the tin: if they lived, logs were added to the fire. Later, bread ovens and even rooms, heated from outside, were used for the same purpose. To prevent clothes from catching fire, paper slips were used as indicators: if they toasted black the temperature was too high; if yellow, just right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. X and Dr. Nikolic | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...society glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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