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...surge in gas prices. "We have some dealers we haven't been able to contact," says Ford spokesman George Pipas, who estimates that 40 Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealerships in southern Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana were affected by the storm. Katrina forced Nissan to close its assembly plant in Canton, Miss., 211 miles north of New Orleans. When the plant reopened, employees reported they were having a hard time finding enough gas to make the commute, says Nissan spokesman Fred Standish. The only nugget of good news: Katrina doesn't appear to have disrupted supplies of critical material like steel...
...Empress of China, the first U.S. ship to trade with China, arrives in Canton (now Guangzhou) after a six-month voyage, carrying 2,600 fur pelts and 30 tons of ginseng. It returns home with cotton, porcelain, silk and tea, earning the ship's owners about $30,000 in profits...
...women’s hockey team had seen everything in its three-week run to the precipice of the national playoffs—overtime thrillers, defensive nail-biters, goaltending duels—except an offensive outburst of the order it was involved in yesterday.But yesterday at Appleton Arena in Canton, N.Y., the fourth-seeded Crimson (18-12-4) rallied from a two-goal deficit with three unanswered scores to overcome third-seeded Brown (15-13-5) by a 4-3 final and secure its third consecutive ECAC Tournament title and an automatic berth into the NCAA Frozen Eight next weekend...
Heading to the locker room after the first period, the Harvard women’s hockey could have easily found a lot of positives despite being outshot 17 to six at Appleton Arena in Canton, N.Y. The score was tied 1-1 at the first break, and senior goaltender Ali Boe looked to be on her game in net for the Crimson. With the momentum of staying in the game against the No. 2 St. Lawrence squad, Harvard (17-12-4) made its most important mark of the season and downed the Saints (30-4-2) by a final...
...insistence that British royal officials could only communicate with provincial Chinese authorities indirectly by way of “petition,” instead of on terms of diplomatic equality. There was also irritation with Chinese constraints on trade—Western traders were confined to Canton (modern Guangzhou) lest too many foreigners should disturb the tranquility of Chinese life. But the British, like everyone else, were dazzled by the prospect of a limitless Chinese market, if only they could get there; so they wanted more ports opened to trade. Furthermore, free trade was fast becoming a moral imperative...