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Market analyst for non-ferrous metals and non-metallic minerals, journalist, mining corporation executive, 1927-1994 : oral
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Title:
Market analyst for non-ferrous metals and non-metallic minerals, journalist, mining corporation executive, 1927-1994 : oral history transcript / 1995Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Strauss, Simon David, 1911-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Barber, Charles F.Creator/Contributor:
Swent, Eleanor, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Strauss discusses his childhood in Peru, his career as an editor, The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, American Smelting
and Refining Company, Southern Peru Copper Corporation, ASARCO, Magma Copper Company, the effect of nationalist movements
in the 1960s, marketing issues in the 1960s and 1970s; finally, his family.
Date:
1995 (issued)Subject:
Nonferrous metal industries -- InterviewsNonferrous metals
Nonmetallic minerals
Métaux non ferreux -- Industrie -- Entretiens
Minéraux non métalliques
Nonferrous metal industries
Nonferrous metals
Nonmetallic minerals
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
American Smelting and Refining Company.
Southern Peru Copper Corporation.
Asarco Inc.
Magma Copper Company.
American Smelting and Refining Company.
Asarco Inc.
Magma Copper Company.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Southern Peru Copper Corporation.
Note:
Simon David Strauss ; with an introduction by Charles F. Barber ; interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1994. Regional
Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Classified as: Phonotape 2805 C:1-16.
Also available online.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xv, 387 pages) : portrait ; 28 cm
16 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.