murdock thomas glenn (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Original hand written letter. Format for the letter is approximately 7.75 inches by 10.75 inches. Format for the envelop is approximately 5.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Letter has been folded to fit into the envelope. Envelope is from the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. The letter was sent from Chile and has two canceled stamps, one for 20 centavos and one for 5 centavos. The letter is addressed to Mr. N. F. Murdock, Salisbury, North Carolina, Los Estados Unidos. This letter from mining engineer Thomas Glenn Murdock is to "My Dear Papa", and was dated June 30, 1927. At the time, he was working for the Anglo-Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corp and he gave his father the address to reach him as that company, Mining Department, Cassilla 17, Tocopilla, Chile, S.A. This letter was written shortly after Murdock arrived to work in Chile. He stated "I was a little tired after being on the water so long but I am now completely rested up." He also stated "I like the job more and more every day and am getting along just fine with the language and can now say almost anything I want to in Spanish." He mentioned "Well next Monday is the 4th of July and there will be some kind of celebration. I dont know just what it will be like. There are a log of Englishmen here and so the celebration probably wont be a strong as it is back home. The mine is going to run, but that dont worry me as I only work 8 hours and after the hours I have been used to that is like a vacation. From an obituary published in the New York Times on January 4, 1971: Thomas Glenn Murdock had been since 1965 senior technical adviser in mineral exploration and mineral policy for the United Nations. In the last five years Mr. Murdock undertook missions to more than a score of countries. He was born in Hiddenite, N.C., served as a military engineer in World War I, graduated from the University of North Carolina and did post graduate work at the University of Alabama. Mr. Murdock was a mining engineer in Latin America for United States companies until 1939, when he became assistant geologist for North Carolina. In World War II he engaged in strategic mineral work for the United States in Brazil and Ethiopia. He joined the State Department in 1947 and served as Minerals Attaché for Africa, south of the Sahara. From 1961 to 1965 be was with the Bureau of Mines in Washington. Surviving were his widow, the former Graciela Murua, and a daughter, Lillie Paulita. It is not known when the family relocated from Hiddenite to Salisbury. The history of Guggenheim's nitrate enterprise in Chile from 1925 to 1932 provides a lesson about the transformation of Guggenheim's investments in Chile, as well as about the main problems that arose after the restructuring of the Guggenheim family business. Guggenheim's venture in Chilean nitrate production from the mid 1920s through its failure in 1934 constituted at first Guggenheim's most prominent foreign investment, subsequently the family's largest business failure as well as a staggering foreign collapse during the Great Depression. Guggenheim's disaster was closely intertwined with the Chilean government's foreign bonds default in 1931. Both these failures, the Guggenheim nitrate business, as well as the Chilean government default, worsened the depression in Chile and produced an independent economic downturn. The combined crashes likewise form a part of Chile's modernization crisis from 1931 onwards. Which were the main factors that determined the negative outcome of Guggenheim's Chilean venture'? A closer look at the history Guggenheim's Chilean nitrate investment suggests that Chilean government intervention in Guggenheim's venture, combined with the government's mismanagement of Chile's finances, constituted the chief dynamic factor for the decline of Guggenheim's Chilean business. Guggenheim Brothers acquired the Anglo-Chilean Nitrate and Railway Company and in addition to that further nitrate deposits in Chile. In 1924 the new holdings were transformed into the recently organized.