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...Patiño's tin miners in Bolivia, whose cause Galarza had championed (TIME, Dec. 28), were back at work,* producing needed metal for the Allied war machine. Their demands for improvement of their substandard living conditions were as yet unanswered, though a special U.S. commission was preparing to investigate the dispute. By appointing such a commission, the U.S. Government had acknowledged a definite interest in the controversy, had shouldered a certain responsibility for its solution...
...left for him to do, and none knew better than Ernesto Galarza that it probably was not enough. Many a knotty problem of Latin-American economy must be solved, many an involved question of Inter-American responsibility must be answered, before Simón Patiño's tin miners receive their...
...could not be so-yet it was. After 15 years and some 4,000 airings (not including rebroadcasts), Amos 'n' Andy were scheduled to leave the air next month. Campbell Soup Co., its domestic output halved by the tin shortage, no longer was willing to spend $1,800,000 yearly to sponsor the pair five nights a week...
...April 15 Joe Loveless came up with a weird machine in a four-gallon kerosene tin. It had been assembled from parts of a weak transmitter, a native's receiver and a few pieces of wire, put together with a bamboo soldering stick. But it worked. Joe Loveless called Darwin...
...three months, while corpulent U.S. notables such as Fiorello LaGuardia wondered uneasily who all the singing was about, the U.S. public has been joyfully bellowing these lines into a major Tin Pan Alley hit. By last week Mister Five By Five, the work of Broadway's Don (Beat Me Daddy) Raye and Gene De Paul, was close to the million mark in record sales and still stood high on Variety's best-seller list...