Word: bolivia
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...prodded him on to parlay their strike into a billion-dollar network of mines and banks that dominated the economy of Bolivia and reached into British and German smelters and Malayan mines. But even a Croesus' fortune could not get Simon into Cochabamba's exclusive Spaniards' Club Social...
Enraged and embittered, the Patinos left Bolivia in 1924, from that time on directed the empire from their Paris mansion, Nice chateau, villa at Biarritz or their yacht...
...Albina Patino and her children control 80% of the stock, she had, in effect, elected herself. But few would dispute her qualifications. When the door of the blue marble tomb at Cochabamba, Bolivia, clanged shut last May on the mortal remains of her 84-year-old husband, there was no one left alive who knew as much as she about the building of the empire. She had had as big a share as Simon in creating...
...their luck to find the rich mine just when European supplies of tin were running out. Soon Bolivia was overrun with tin-hunters. When Simon foolishly agreed to sign away the mine for $350,000, iron-willed Albina knocked the pen from his hand...
...hopes to keep the world cartel from reforming. Moreover, since the richer Malayan mines can turn out better ore at lower cost than Bolivia, Albina has no assurance that the British would want it. But the U.S. is in no position to fight tin producers...