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...many respects, the boycott and other forms of Arab hostility have strengthened rather than weakened Israel's economy. Because Egyptian cotton was unavailable, Israel began to grow its own. Because Israel had to trade far from its natural markets, it developed a large merchant marine (more than 1,500,000 tons today v. 22,000 in 1948). Because many foreign airlines refused to land at Israeli fields in 1948, El Al was formed. In a period of trouble for all airlines. El Al is doing relatively well (see BUSINESS...
Both Murphys were from wealthy American merchant families: her father sold ink, his owned the luxury leather store Mark Cross. Neither was quite happy in the usual mold of puritanical work and social aggrandizement. Falling in love was a mutual recognition of aim. "I feel as if we had registered at the office of Civilization a claim to a place in the world and that it had been granted," Gerald wrote his fiancee...
Despite the fact that he knew most of the giants of modern art, Gerald never collected their pictures. He was in some ways very much his merchant father's son. Just as the elder Murphy introduced many appurtenances of upper-class European life to the U.S., Gerald acquainted his friends in France with such American contrivances as jazz records and waffle irons, portable bathhouses and inflatable rubber horses. Fitzgerald was so awed by Murphy's taste that he thought it must apply to everything and consulted him on literary matters. Gerald did not really respond to his friend...
...that the bank makes more non-collateral loans, which require court action in the event of a default, than its four nearest competitors combined. >Other allegations focused on the bank's Master Charge credit-card service. While Citibank takes care to check on the credit rating of merchants who offer the plan, the report declared, it does not investigate a firm's advertising practices or the quality of its merchandise. The Nader group cited one example of a Master Charge merchant who sold sewing machines through phony advertising. Bank officials reply that they simply cannot patrol the ethics...
...Japanese shipyards, he usually manages to obtain space. Last week he announced his latest deal-six supertankers totaling 1.5 million tons to be built by a consortium of five Japanese shipyards. The price: $180 million. Even the Japanese, who build nearly 50% of the world's new merchant tonnage, have been blinking at such gargantuan orders...