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Burning the State Department's hands since mid-March has been a voluminous report on working conditions in Bolivia. In Washington and La Paz, officials debated whether to suppress it or release it, and perhaps bring down a torrent of criticism on 1) Bolivia, and 2) Tin King Simon I. Patino, whose miners precipitated the whole business by striking four months ago (TIME...
Plans for practical field problems in the Statistical officers' duties are in the hatching stage. We cannot promise air-raids or strafing conditions for you to work through, but it is hoped that something akin thereto can be worked out. Quick, Albert, fetch me my tin hat, our Student Status Report in tardy...
Said Chief of Staff General Antenor Ichazo: "The decree, in my opinion, will serve to revolutionize our economy." What this probably meant was that troops or mobilized civilians can be set to mining tin, tungsten, lead, copper, antimony, harvesting rubber, producing quinine, building roads. Labor for these enterprises has been scarce, and it has sometimes been both obstreperous and ill-treated. Mobilization presumably will not be a boon to Bolivian labor, but it may well increase production of Bolivian war material...
...December 1941, Pacific Tin Consolidated Corp. destroyed its Malayan mines on orders from the British. Result: $10.6 million damage claims filed with the U.S. and British Governments...
...headquarters building one day in a sudden downpour a man who looked like General Patton stood on the roof. He had a tin hat on, his slicker was buttoned close up around his neck. He was looking up at a grey heaven and he seemed to be wondering...