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...nick of time, the Government caught one conspirator actually handing out cash to soldiers. Bigger fish captured were ex-Minister of War Ernesto Hertzog, two generals, and Lawyer Nestor Galindo, charged with distributing a 20,000,000 peso ($450,000) corruption fund. Biggest fish: German-born Argentine-naturalized Tin Magnate Mauricio Hochschild, jailed as principal...
...failure of elegant U.S. Ambassador Pierre Boal, who was inclined to see most things through the eyes of Bolivia's tin-mine owners, to warn Washington of the Bolivian revolution (TIME...
Radio correspondents set the scene: it was a beautiful day, clear and sunny. From the broadcasting studio (sitting room of a battered ten-room villa) herds of sheep and flocks of chickens were visible. So were American soldiers, sunbathing, boating on the Mediterranean ("They look funny with their tin hats"), playing volleyball and softball in the "rest area." A hospital nearby was filled with "last night's casualties." The men of JJRP had just lost a pet horse named James to an anti-personnel bomb, not far from where a direct shell hit had "disintegrated" a Negro truck driver...
...destroyers, the "tin can fleet," are generally named after naval heroes. MacDonald's can, the O'Bannon, is named after a marine. The marine was Lieut. Presley N. O'Bannon, a whooping, crop-haired Irishman from Kentucky, who in 1805 led the Marines (seven of them) to the "shores of Tripoli." O'Bannon and a motley crew of Greeks, Arabs and Egyptians marched across the Libyan desert to attack the Barbary pirates in their stronghold at Derna. After considerable derring-do, O'Bannon breached the ramparts, raised the Stars and Stripes...
Hitler, Göring & Goebbels made a drive for scarce metals, confiscated door handles, hinges, lamps and name plates, made of copper, nickel, bronze, tin and lead, exempted all busts of Hitler, Göring & Goebbels. Last Feb. 15 Joseph Goebbels invited his guests to dine at Berlin's Hotel Bristol. That night the British came, uninvited. A blockbuster crashed square on the hotel. Days later, hundreds of dead had been dug from the ruins. Joseph Goebbels was not among them-he had left on the dead run when the alarm first sounded...