PRICELESS PLATINUM.
USED FOR ROADMAKING,
Geluhausen, a sleepy town in a quiet German valley, has become a veritable treasure chest. Some time ago a large electric light bulb factory there was burned down. The ruins of the buildings were used to build, roads. In the course of time the price of platinum, a constituent used beyond the dreams of avarice. It then occurred to someone to dig in the roads for specks of the precious metal which might have been melted by the fire and left in the ruins. Presently the roadway was full of diggers, some of whom earned as much as 80,000 marks a day by selling the platinum specks they unearthed. The owners of the bulb factory tore down the new building they had erected, and by searching in the ruins of the old, found enough patinum to pay for tearing down and rebuilding their factory, and to pay a handsome profit in addition.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15908, 21 August 1923, Page 7
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157PRICELESS PLATINUM. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15908, 21 August 1923, Page 7
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