[rollei_list] Re: Grossly OT: Cornering the Silver Market

At 07:57 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote:

>Speculators who attempt to corner a commodity that is also considered a
>strategic material seem to take an eventual drubbing.  Many years ago I 
>knew a
>young woman who's father tried it with Beryllium ... he lost, as they say, 
>his
>hat, ass, and wristwatch.
>
>G. King

I can remember when silver was used for electrical bus bars at Tinker Field 
and the Douglas plant in Oklahoma City.

I have always wondered how they kept it from being sold.  (Copper was rated 
as a more strategic metal than silver at that time).



Don Williams
La Jolla, CA



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