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...price of the 72-odd Confederate curren cies issued between 1861 and 1864. A $50 note issued in Alabama in 1861 can fetch up to $1,000, and a $5 bill from Richmond may bring up to $900. Particularly in demand are $100 notes depicting slaves hoeing cotton. Proving that more than one peanut farmer knows how to exploit his roots, a goober grower from Virginia enticed a collector into shelling out $10,000 for an 1861 Virginia $500 note...
...contrived or superficial. People felt at home and at ease. Everyone in the auditorium had a common bond--a bond not shared by strangers outside the theater, walking around the Square, more than a thousand miles away from the nearest cottonfields. Inside, the air almost smelled of cotton. Boots, cowboy hats, girls with lots of make-up, southern accents and other signs of the South abounded. Everybody there felt, well, just real good...
...risk millions on a single transaction. There are other types of arbitrage, but they are scarcely as exciting. The word arbitrage is old French, and in that language means "arbitration." In financial English, it has traditionally described trading on price variations on the same commodity in different markets -buying cotton in New York, say, and selling it in Hong Kong, where the price might be a trifle higher. That is still done, but the profits are tiny...
VICTORY FOR THE COMMON PROGRAM IS YOUR BUSINESS proclaimed the banner over the garlic soup and mussel bar. NATIONALIZATION IS THE WAY TO A MORE BEAUTIFUL LIFE was the message next to a cotton candy and candy apple stand. The leftist slogan, FOR A REAL CHANGE, was plastered on the walls of hundreds of booths displaying such gastronomical luxuries as pate de foie gras from the Gascogne and oysters from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend...
Newbury Street on the first sunny day in a week has almost a carnival atmosphere. No cotton candy or ferris wheels. Rather, sidewalk cafes with Cinzano ashtrays and people drinking creme de menthe and talking about Art and Life and Death and "Darling, did you know that Miranda has run off to Haiti with a jazz musician...