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...messenger on the exchange floor in 1914, he became floor trader for Munn & Jenkins, shipping brokers, later founded his Allen Shipping Co., worldwide middleman between shipowners and bulk cargo shippers. Allen saw duty in two world wars (from buck private to colonel), directed operations at the port of Antwerp in World...
...export the raw materials to the allied country. But no consignment ever got to Britain or France. Either in Switzerland or in Belgium, where customs officers paid small heed to in-transit goods, the agency transshipped the stuff-from Switzerland by rail to Vienna and the East, from Antwerp by sea to Polish Gdynia...
...things I finde him a reall man." Page to Painter. Rubens' success story had an early beginning. As a page in the house of the Countess of Lalaing, he learned the elaborate etiquette of baroque court life while still in his teens, then studied painting under the best Antwerp craftsmen of his day. At 23, a fluent Latin scholar and already an accomplished painter, he set off on the grand tour, in Italy joined the household of the powerful Duke of Mantua. While in his service...
...result, Rubens returned to Antwerp aged 31 in 1608, both a skilled courtier, versed in eight languages, and a master artist with the whole repertory of Renaissance techniques at his fingertips. In drawings such as his sketch for Daniel in the Lions' Den (left), he proved that he could infuse into classical and Biblical themes a new verve and power distinctively his own. Respectably married to the pretty daughter of a conservative Antwerp lawyer, and appointed court painter to the sovereigns of the Spanish Netherlands. Rubens so prospered that he finally complained to a friend: "To tell the truth...
BELGIAN BONDS will go on sale in the U.S. market soon for the first time in 20 years. Belgium, which needs $50 million to improve the Port of Antwerp and inland waterways, will float a $30 million issue through New York's Morgan Stanley & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co., has got the rest in a loan from the World Bank...