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The abundance of new technology in the United States can in fact impede the development of muchneeded new facilities, which in turn jeopardizes this country’s competitive position. From inside the metallurgical community, the hope that the competition is friendly. (Excerpted from the EMD Luncheon Address given during the 102nd Annual Meeting of AIME, February 29, 1973, International Ballroom, Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago)
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W. R. Opie, a former director of The Metallurgical Society of AIME, is a graduate (1942) in metallurgical engineering of the Montana School of Mines, and took his doctorate in metallurgy at MIT in 1949. Currently he is president of AMAX Base Metals Research & Development and his career in metallurgy spans service with Wright Aero Corp., American Smelting & Refining Co., and National Lead Company. A past chairman of the Extractive Metallurgy Div. of AIME, Dr. Opie has also served as chairman of the Technical Committee, International Copper Research Assn., and as chairman of the Germanium Research Committee.
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Opie, W.R. The two faces of technology: Manpower and capital. JOM 25, 20–21 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03355829
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