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...virtually exhausted. Meanwhile the demand for tin constantly increases, thus leaving the tin producer in the pleasant position of meeting an increasing demand with a diminishing supply. Chief tin companies are Anglo-Oriental Malaya, Ltd., British company working a majority of the Malayan and Nigerian mines; and the Patino Mines and Enterprise, Consolidated, organized by Bolivia's Simon Patino. Most of the Dutch mines are government controlled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tin Trust | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Down the gangplank walked Simon Y. Patino, Bolivian Minister to Spain, a man worth ten times ten million good U. S. dollars. This short, broad man with a pug-dog face was accompanied by two sons, Rene and Onlino, two secretaries, two valets, one manager, one physician and 50 pieces of luggage. To the immigration men he handed a diplomatic passport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rich | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...Simon Patino started life 59 years ago. Aged 28 (when he was an insignificant storekeeper), he raised the enormous fortune of $18,000 to buy a tin mine. Since then, he has become richer and richer and still richer. He dislikes discomfort, and-as he has money with which to buy comfort-he keeps no fewer than 13 châteaux in various parts of the world-Nice, Biarritz, London, Paris, et cetera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rich | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

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