You may recall that he was the inventor of the self-supporting geodesic dome, among many other things. Well, to make a long story much longer, I couldn't stand the cognitive puzzling, so I decided to track down a copy of the book. Why this would stick in my head during a period of my life when I had absolutely no interest in the subject of gold I cannot explain. But perhaps there truly are no coincidences, and it just may be that the Universe was simply storing the information away for me until it was most appropriately brought forth. I was working for Phelps Dodge Co., which had asked me to give them some prognostications about the uses of copper in the future of world industry.
Copper is the most plentiful of the most efficient electric power production and conduction metals.
I was a power-production war. Because of these facts, the demand for copper in 1917 was epochally great. The whole price paid for copper was profit. The mine owners then decided to mine only when the prices bid for copper were at a peak. The prices bid always peaked in wartime.