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Antenor No. 2. Cristina's Antenor is the son of the late Bolivian Tin King Simón Patiño. Though the Patino holdings have been estimated at a comfortable $1 billion, Antenor has never been profligate (he once put in several tax-exempt years as Bolivia's ambassador to London). Cristina managed, however, to separate him from an even half-million dollars after a 1944 separation, won a court judgment for another $500,000 by proving some indiscretions with a brunette model named Francesca Simms in 1945. This irritated Antenor to the point of trying...
...corner of his 286-acre farm, Joe joined a crowd of several hundred oil scouts, brokers, geologists and gawking neighbors around the tin-hatted crew working the rig on a 128-ft. oil derrick. As Joe and they watched, there was a cough and a sputter; then a stream of oil shot out 30 ft. and poured into the mud sump pit. Joe York rubbed his hands in the oil, smelled it and smiled. "I guess I won't have to go back to milking those Jersey cows," he said. The oil scouts took but one look...
Yellow Cab ordered 110,000 tin whistles (total cost: $1,500) and distributed them last week to frustrated Clevelanders. The response was reasonably shrill...
...officers are quartered in small concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before the Okinawa garrison will have adequate housing. (Congress has so far appropriated $58 million...
...father, a Swiss-born peddler of household knickknacks, ran a $25,000 investment in two Colorado silver mines into one of the world's largest fortunes; in Port Washington, N.Y. With earnings from his share in his family's international mining interests (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin), Solomon donated millions to charity (mostly anonymously), in 1947 gave some $4,000,000 to establish the fourth of the famed Guggenheim foundations† which supports Manhattan's avant-garde Museum of Non-Objective Painting...