Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian supply, sharply increased the demand, for platinum is used not only as a catalyst in the manufacture of nitrates and sulphuric acid, but also in the detonating devices of shells. In the U. S. the Wartime price was fixed at $105 an oz., and newly developed deposits in Colombia could not fill the demand. After the War, when price-fixing ended, platinum rocketed above $170. Then in the early 1920's new platinum deposits were discovered in South Africa and in the late 1920's it began to be recovered in Canada's nickel mines...
...Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen married a Danish subject, Kammer-junker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Captain Boerge Rohde (TIME, July 20). On this attractive recommendation, Denmark last week drew a second woman minister when Mexico transferred its Señorita Palma Guillen from Colombia to Denmark...
...marrying Madam Minister Owen, pious Colombians made suave, energetic Spinster Guillen's life miserable after she ventured to deny officially that her Government persecuted the Catholic Church. Too late a Colombian newspaper editor reminded his churlish readers: "Señorita Guillen has said many nice things about Colombia and refused higher posts in the U. S. and Europe because she preferred Colombia...
However. TIME was technically right, too, when it said that no wheel had ever rolled between North and South America. In impassable Central America Barone's journey was broken by three water hauls, the longest of which (210 miles) was from Colombia to Panama...
Texas Corp.'s Chairman Torkild Rieber likes to do things with a minimum of publicity, a maximum of purpose. Last spring the Norwegian-born onetime shipmaster bought from the Mellons' Gulf Oil the famed Barco concession in Colombia, promptly teamed up on a 50-50 basis with Socony-Vacuum for its development (TIME, May 4). Last week Captain Rieber struck another foreign deal with another Standard company, Standard Oil of California. In a terse joint statement from Captain Rieber and Standard's Kenneth Kingsbury it was revealed that Texaco will market all oil produced and refined...