“It was during one of Villa’s visits to the Chihuahua plant that there emerged the classic remark that went the length and breadth of Mexico. Some one asked him in Spanish if he spoke English. His reply was: “Si. ‘American Smelting’ y ’son-of-a bitch.’ ” It was all the English he knew.” [1916]
http://avalosblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/1916-ny-times-refugees-flocking-from-the-interior/
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Engineering gorup in 1974 handled the El Paso Lead smelter job, and 50% of the uranium projects....
[in the olden days, lead smelters were used to separate out uranium from the original ores (still are, in Korea)]
"...I left OZ in October of 1974 to take on the PM job for New Jersey Zinc’s Zinc Refinery in Clarksville Tennessee...the company made me Manager and the Vice President of the Non-Ferrous Division....At the time I had what was probably the largest engineering group in the world doing lead-zinc projects as well as uranium extraction projects. We were getting around half the uranium projects on offer and we had the El Paso lead smelter job...."
Otago School of Mines & Metallurgy
1950s Graduates Newsletter
October 2002
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6776971/Newsletter3
"...I left OZ in October of 1974 to take on the PM job for New Jersey Zinc’s Zinc Refinery in Clarksville Tennessee...the company made me Manager and the Vice President of the Non-Ferrous Division....At the time I had what was probably the largest engineering group in the world doing lead-zinc projects as well as uranium extraction projects. We were getting around half the uranium projects on offer and we had the El Paso lead smelter job...."
Otago School of Mines & Metallurgy
1950s Graduates Newsletter
October 2002
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6776971/Newsletter3
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