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Turkish Folk Songs and Dances, by Nicholas Matthey and orchestra, is probably the most gratifying surprise of all the 150 albums Decca has released. Influenced by the melodies of Asia and North Africa, influencing the melodies of Eastern and Central Europe, Turkish music has everything from Bedouin thump to gypsy stomp. Notable in this collection is the weird and haunting Taxim, a harem dance which indicates that Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky were not faking their Moslem themes...
...Lane, six immaculate gentlemen gather every morning except Sundays and bank holidays to fix the world price of gold. These six men, the so-called Gold Committee, represent six great British bullion brokers: N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Mocatta & Goldsmid, Samuel Montagu & Co., Pixley & Abell, Sharps & Wilkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co. Before each member is a telephone directly connected with twelve telephones in his home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining companies, banks and banking houses, speculators, arbitragers. On Saturdays the meetings open at 10:30 a. m. but otherwise the chairman...
...market for platinum is controlled by the selling agencies of a few producers. The big producers in Canada, Colombia and South Africa sell directly to the trade and to jobbers through a handful of agents such as Johnson & Matthey of London and Charles Engelhard, head of Baker & Co. of Newark. Russia sells through Amtorg. With this small field of big sellers and an unorganized field of small buyers no one could tell whether the recent platinum boom was caused by a rush of buying or a reluctance to sell. Last week the air was full of conjectures. Least ominous guess...