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Rank R. Milliken
Pages 132-137

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... Starting his career cluring the depression of the 1930s, he worked briefly for the Peru Mining Company in Deming, New Mexico, as a metallurgist, before occupying the post of chief metallurgist for the General Engineering Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1936 to 1941. He then worked briefly as test engineer at the Utah Copper Company's Magna Concentrator during 1941, foreshadowing his eventual longterm association with Kennecott, its parent company.
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From page 134...
... During the hectic times for the copper industry in the 1960s and 1970s, Frank received national attention through his astute and aggressive management policies, as well as for his involvement in public affairs. That period, in addition to intensified promulgation of strikes by organized labor, saw the nationalization of the copper mines held by Kennecott and Anaconda in Chile and the beginnings of enforcement of new environmental protection regulations under the Environmental Protection Agency.
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From page 135...
... With no holds barred by Berner, including personal attacks against Frank, both the proxy and legal battles were joined in the spring of 1978, with Kennecott the winner in both. Peter Grace, a Kennecott director, said that Frank's campaign resembled his earlier aggressive tactics in the 1930s as an all-American goalie on MIT's hockey team and as a winning substitute varsity wrestler.
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... He will be long remembered as a public servant and as an engineer who fought successfully for his company's survival, during a period when many other mining companies succumbed to declining resources, to domestic and foreign economic and political pressures, and to corporate wars.
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