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Show 292 UTAH INTERNATIONAL: A BIOGRAPHY OF A BUSINESS the narrative, the letters, oral interviews, and speeches of Edmund W. Littlefield gathered by the authors became the central resource for comprehending the remarkable evolution of the company into a multinational giant. These Littlefield materials are extensive, wellreferenced, and eventually will be available for research in the WSU Stewart Library Special Collections Department. Each of the topical chapters relied heavily on oral interviews with company principals, such as Charles Travers on dredging and land development, but it was also necessary to resort to contemporary publications. The exploration of Utah’s move into the international mining business, and the Peruvian adventure, benefitted greatly from such periodicals as the Peruvian Times, The Tex Report, Iron Age, Metal Bulletin, American Metal Market, The Japan Commerce Daily, Skillings Mining Review, the DuPont Research Department’s Investment Values for Today, and The Wall Street Journal. In addition, Sterling Sessions was dean of the Stanford-administered Escuela de Administracién de Negocios, a graduate school of business in Lima, Peru, from 1966-68, and became personally familiar with Utah’s operations and personnel in that country. Such company publications as the Marcona Corporation Progress Reports (1967-72), Twenty Years of Growth Through Innovation (San Francisco: Marcona Corporation, 1972), and Nationalization of Marcona Mining Company Peruvian Branch by the Revolutionary Military Government of Peru (San Francisco: Marcona Corporation, 1975) were invaluable. W. D. Leonard, “Marcona Mining Company History,” Utah Construc- tion Company Mining and Metallurgical Operations (Confidential Memorandum, 30 April 1958), served as an excellent preliminary guide to composing the Marcona chapter. The Annual Reports of the Lucky Mc Uranium Corporation (1955-59), as well as the Prospectus of the Lucky Mc Uranium Corporation (January 5, 1960), enriched the account of Utah’s domestic mining scene, as did various publications of the Cyprus Mines Corporation and Pima Copper. Numerous articles in Business Week were particularly valuable in chronicling this portion of the company’s postwar diversification. David Lavender, The Story of Cyprus Mines Corporation (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1962) thoroughly covered that ground. In |