collateral in the form of cash from the Heinze brothers. Conceivably, if the share price of United Copper fell enough, the loans due could consume all the cash Fritz had received from Amalgamated. As October passed, prices continued to fall, and as the pressure increased, Otto and Arthur wondered if the nearly 50 percent drop in the price of United Copper wasn’t due to something other than the weakness in the price of copper or the share price of other copper concerns or the 28 percent year-to-date decline in the broad stock market;
