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...Change its international flavor. A broker receiving an order in rubbers may have to rush out and buy some Bah Lias, Gula Kalump, or Linggi, while in teas he must know Budla Beta, Chargola, Jokai, Pabbojan. The mining list includes famed De Beers Diamond Mines, the Rand (gold), Johannesburg Consolidated Investments ("Johnnies"), Rio Tinto ("The Tinto"), Roan Antelope, Katanga, Mount Isa, Siamese...
...dealings. New British Woolworth shares were a favorite, and such prominent London groups as the rubbers, home-rails, breweries and artificial silks were all higher. Internationals (mostly Americans) were strong. So were old favorites like Bats (British-American Tobacco), Imps (Imperial Tobacco), the Tinto (Rio Tinto), and the Johnnies (Johannesburg mining shares...
Died, Lieut. -Colonel Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel, 65, famed British turfman, slum-born, director of Barnato Bros. & Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co., mighty syndicates which control the world's diamond output and fix diamond prices; after a long illness; at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket, England...
...Lufthansa plane in England which killed six. Lately he bought a specially built Lockheed monoplane, flew it from London to Cape Town in 6 1/2 days for a record, despite a crackup in Africa. Last week Commander Kidston and his friend Capt. T. A. Gladstone were flying from Johannesburg to Natal in a Puss Moth biplane. They encountered a duststorm in the Drakensberg Mountains. A wing was wrenched off. Commander Kidston and friend crashed. Both died...
Biggest Tycoons: Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel and brother, Jack. Solomon is lord of the world's diamond industry, chairman of Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co. Ltd., potent South African holding company whose shares are known in London as "Johnnies...