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"And we had a man named Brown who was pressing very hard in selling the stuff. With management out of the way, because there was no longer a banker running it, then there was nobody to put management in or out and if the made a profit then their stock-holders would reelect them. What we call finance capitalism into managerial capitalism. Thi is really a very severe jump.
“But what was bothering the old management-- which was still the mining world, they had really the great monopoly-- was that scrap was beginning to be sold and that bothered them very much. They produced the same copper. And banks had great byndles of copper, and they had yards, gurading as copper scrap. Trying to keep it out of the way. Louis Cates brought me in, through Bill Osborne, to make a study of world industrialization-- way, way ahead-- to see what the function of copper would be as the various stages would unfold. In doing that I became really a deep student of copper and other metals that they were interested in, the tins, and the history of those. And in doing the history, I would always go tb the very earliest known history. I never started at 1900, or anything like that; I wanted to look at the total big picture. And I saw how copper had actually been used and I saw that there was a copper-- a bronze age.”
