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...then open to buy up the holdings and rights of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique, a bankrupt French company that had tried-under the guidance of Ferdinand de Lesseps, supervisor of the Suez Canal project-to trench the 50 miles between the seas. By the time the C.U.C.I. folded in 1889, it had spent $287 million dollars and the lives of some 20,000 Frenchmen and Chinese, Irish and West Indian laborers. The chief killers, as generations of schoolchildren have been told, were malaria and yellow fever...
...points in one session. Steel was off; Republic, the industry's fourth largest producer, reported a $6.2 million loss for the period, caused largely by winter natural-gas shortages and transportation difficulties. Chemical company earnings were down, despite rising sales. Union Carbide was off 20%, to $81.5 million. Du Pont, the largest producer, registered earnings of $121 million, 12% below a year earlier. Chairman Irving S. Shapiro said depressed prices of synthetic fibers hurt...
Flash is what affluent rockers want, insists Decorator Phyllis Morris. Rock stars love trendy Phyllis because her furnishings-zebra rugs, Borsalino mirrors, St. Regis candelabra and Corsican coffee tables-are loud, lacquered and overpriced. "Rock people are just like the movie stars of the '40s," says la dame du flash. "It's exciting to watch them spend money. They're looking for something that says they've arrived. They're creative, emotional, uninhibited. And in their homes you'll find an atmosphere of uncontrolled funk...
...W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk...
...result of 19th century colonial agreements, half the city-the rich half -was governed by foreigners. In the International Settlement and the neighboring French Concession, Europeans and Americans watched jai alai on the Avenue du Roi Albert, gambled on greyhounds at the Canidrome, and enjoyed the most glittering night life in the world at such places as the Ambassador, the Casanova and the Venus Café. Shanghai was a city for sale. Almost anything-and almost anyone-could be bought for the right price...