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But in London, Leeds or Liverpool, the average person was hardly aware that anything was wrong. Food prices stabilized after an initial upward flurry as supplies from the Continent continued to arrive in foreign ships. Unable to export for lack of ships, British automakers simply upped their production of right...
Known on the Continent as a visa-giste, or makeup man, Pablo does for faces what Kenneth does for hair, and he is increasingly becoming a necessary part of the well-dressed sophisticate's beauty routine. "I've never seen an ugly woman," says Pablo. Certainly not after...
Welcome Dollars. Oil is only one part of a boom in minerals that has lured foreign companies into a rush for riches and revamped the economy of a continent. Ten years ago, Australia had to import all of its aluminum; until six years ago, iron-ore exports were forbidden because...
A mysterious form of currency to many, Eurodollars flit about the Continent by the billions, escaping a precise definition by economists and an exact count by statisticians. Most simply a Eurodollar, or E$, is an American dollar that has been deposited in a European bank or the European branch of...
Thus Samuel Butler eased a case of culture shock he contracted on visiting the North American continent in 1874.