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Continental bondmen fear that Washington will soon clamp down on convertible issues. Many European investors, they report, are simply selling their American stocks to raise cash to buy such bonds. Such sales siphon dollars abroad, and the U.S. can ill afford the extra drain on its balance of payments...
...Liechtenstein. In the course of dodging everyone from police to the hired killers who are after the industrialist, Cane retraces his old Resistance route through the Auvergne, encountering wartime friends and enemies and fighting several pitched battles along the way. British Author Lyall, one of the better new Bondmen, fills his book with fine local color and crafty foreign agentry. But he also supplies the necessary ingredient of the newer brand of spy stories: brooding about the morality of shooting down one's enemies in peacetime and the terrible problems of being...
...Heathen Bondmen." Matter-of-factly presenting such homely details, Author Daniel Mannix has produced a carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3½ centuries (1518 to 1865) during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World. This savage traffic began, ironically, as the result of one man's compassion. In 1517 a pious priest from Haiti interceded with the Spanish King to protest the treatment of the island's gentle Indians, whom the colonists were slaughtering in droves in a futile effort to make the rest work...
When conscience nagged, slave owners cited the Bible (Leviticus 25:44-"Thy bondmen shall be of the heathen") as justification. But the trade offered the chance of such fantastic commercial gain that few men could resist it. In the 1780s, when a man could live on ?6 a year, the merchants of Liverpool with 87 ships working the African coast netted ?300,000 profit in one twelve-month period...
...American Tobacco deal will climax two months of day & night work for investment bankers. They timed the bulk of their financing to fall between the Fifth War Loan in July and the Sixth War Loan drive in November. Since the first of the year, bondmen have marketed more than $2 billion of corporates and municipals-the largest total since...