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Last week the field was dotted with pup tents and tin huts, swarming with men. The Luftwaffe paid it the respect of a daily call. From it, U.S. bombers had already made 41 raids...
...using up its fuel supply at an increasing rate, will gradually get hotter during the next ten billion years. By that time the earth's surface temperature will be lifted to about 750° Fahrenheit, hot enough to boil away the oceans, char organic matter, and melt tin, lead and zinc. Then the last of the sun's hydrogen atoms will be converted into helium. With no more fuel on hand, the sun will cool and fade...
...Strike. The conscientious New York Times printed the plot story on page 1, noted the Ministry of the Interior's statement that arbitration had been refused by the striking workers, that documented evidence was being sought of a connection with the Nazis. But there was more to the tin miners' strike than that...
...present wage levels. His charge: U.S. Ambassador Pierre de Lagarde Boal had discussed the new labor code with President Peñaranda "for the obvious purpose of delaying the application of the wage provisions. . . . Clearly his purpose was to head off a rise in the cost of tin to the U.S. . . . The American Government is placing itself in the position of attempting to aid in the denial of those rights of labor organization and collective bargaining which are commonplace...
...difficult and ticklish situation for President Peñaranda. Tin is Bolivia's most important export, and Patino's tin constitutes almost half of the local production. It was also a difficult situation for the United Nations, which need all of Bolivia's tin for war purposes. Financially Bolivia was in a bad way, with prices spiraling despite credits from the U.S. President Peñaranda faced a fundamental problem in human and economic relations which the necessities of war no longer permitted to be postponed...