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...thin, biting air of Catavi, 13,000 feet above sea level, the great refining plant last week lay still and smokeless. Past the paymaster's windows shuffled the Indians who dig and smelt a third of Bolivia's tin from the biggest of the Patiño mines. All 7,000 of them were being fired...
...shrewd Tin Baron Patiño did not let diplomatic frippery interfere with business. When the world depression of the 1930s set off a tin crisis, he helped form a cartel with British and Dutch producers. Together, they held prices firm...
...automobile (bearings) made Tin Baron Patio one of the world's five richest men. He moved to Europe, lived like a prince among a fawning nobility that overlooked his cholo beginnings. From Paris, Patiño managed Bolivian politics, elected presidents, juggled Cabinet ministers. He had himself appointed Bolivian Minister to France. Son Antenor married the stately Cristina de Bourbon, niece of dethroned Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...Patiño rode out World War II just as easily-first in a six-room suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, later in the Plaza in Buenos Aires. It was in the Plaza this week that Simon Patino quietly died at 86. He will be buried-for the time being-in Buenos Aires. Later he may be carried to the homeland he had not seen for 23 years, to the blue marble mausoleum built for him on the harsh Andean uplands...
Died. Simón I. Patiño, 86, Bolivian tin king whose whopping fortune (estimate: $300-$500 million) got bigger almost every time a housewife opened a tin can; in Buenos Aires (see LATIN AMERICA...