Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For years, shy little Sir Ernest Oppenheimer left aides breathless as he raced down into South Africa's mines or whisked surefootedly around the crags of high finance. "There's a special place in hell," he said impatiently, "for mining men who don't work with the...
Yet it was not in diamonds but in gold that Ernest Oppenheimer got his first big break. Teaming with American Engineer W. L. Honnold, he went to London, explained the gold-mining possibilities of South Africa's East Rand district, persuaded J. P. Morgan & Co. and other firms to...
At his death. Sir Ernest remained a somewhat mysterious figure. His vanquished business rivals were still unsure what he had beaten them with. "Sir Ernest loved corporate assets," one mining associate recalled. "He actually got a lump in his throat describing some of them." Sir Ernest himself summed up his...
Now hemisphere producers are grumbling loudly. "I've always felt [the Americans] were fair-weather friends," said an official of the Canadian Metal Mining Association. "When the pinch is on-wham! Someone starts talking tariffs." Peruvians say that any tariff hike, no matter how small, will put most of...
The son of a wealthy mining engineer and landowner, Gaillard was a precociously brilliant schoolboy, showed an early devotion to economics. After energetic wartime service in the resistance, he attended various international conferences as a financial expert, was elected to the Assembly (at 27) as a Radical Socialist in 1946...