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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...
...gold in circulation. They guess that there may exist 6,000,000 oz. of platinum. They have only a rough idea how much is being produced-it may be 300,000 oz. a year-and no one is sure whether the leading producer is Russia or Canada. Colombia and South Africa produce nearly all the rest. The U. S. piddles along with a couple of thousand ounces. Biggest platinum consumer is the U. S. What the rest of the world consumes is wholly guesswork...
...market for platinum is controlled by the selling agencies of a few producers. The big producers in Canada, Colombia and South Africa sell directly to the trade and to jobbers through a handful of agents such as Johnson & Matthey of London and Charles Engelhard, head of Baker & Co. of Newark. Russia sells through Amtorg. With this small field of big sellers and an unorganized field of small buyers no one could tell whether the recent platinum boom was caused by a rush of buying or a reluctance to sell. Last week the air was full of conjectures. Least ominous guess...
...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...