Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crime was New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The jewelmart was Fifth Avenue's fashionable Black, Starr & Frost. The salesman who gave up his card to the persuasive purchaser was one Thomas Patterson. The rings were two, valued at $800 and $750, containing diamonds set in platinum...
...diameter called Meteor Crater (TIME, March 25). Last week miners hired by Philadelphia's Daniel Moreau Barringer said that at 1,400 ft. depth they had found the main body of the meteor which made the pit. Drill- ings show 90% iron, 7% nickel, traces of iridium and platinum...
Meanwhile customs men hung on to $150,000 worth of diamonds set in platinum, taken from Mrs. Rella Factor on May 28. Once a Chicagoan, Mrs. Factor claimed, as the wife of a London stockbroker, to be a British subject...
...Russia were proved with startling effect by a late despatch from Moscow. By order of the Stalin government, three former imperial and Kerensky officials, recently high Soviet railway and mining officials, were sentenced to be shot dead for obstructing Communist operation of railways and of the gold and platinum industry-in other words, for "counter-revolutionary plotting for the restoration of Capitalism." Condemned were: N. K. von Meck, onetime chairman of the privately owned Moscow-Kazan Railway; A. F. Velitchko, head of the transport department of the Imperial Staff during the World War, and Professor P. A. Palchinsky, professor...
...Coolidge took a diamond and platinum brooch 1½ in. by 3½ in. on a 22-in. diamond and platinum chain, the whole containing nearly 400 diamonds (largest stone, five carats) made by Black, Starr & Frost; also a pink leather book containing the names of the lady admirers who presented the brooch (duplicate filed in the secret archives of the State Department) ; a large silver bowl and candlesticks presented by Lady Howard on behalf of the Diplomatic Corps, as wedding gifts for John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull; a check for $100,000 contributed to the endowment of Clarke School...