Word: furse
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FURS BY ASTOR by John Upton Terrell. 490 pages. Morrow. $6.95.
The man was short of education and loutish of manner; even after he had become the richest man in the country and an intimate of statesmen, he ate ice cream and peas with his knife and wiped his fingers on his neighbors' clothing. But the territory he controlled was...
Astor was not a particularly original thinker, Author Terrell believes, but he thoroughly understood something his competitors did not-the value of political influence. In 1808 he appealed to the patriotism of Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York, pointing out to him that three-quarters of the furs purchased in...
Scant Records. With that kind of start, Astor never was headed. He poured liquor into the frontier areas on the theory that the trader with the whisky was certain of cornering the market. One by one, the independent dealers went out of business or merged with the American Fur Co...
By signing the cambiali with abandon to finance everything from furs to apartments, thousands upon thousands of Italians have run up staggering debts. Nearly every day the Italian press discovers another case of someone obli gated to pay out more monthly on cambiali than he actually earns. Almost everyone does...