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Luckier than all the prospectors were the traders who grubstaked them. Isaac Alcolumbre, a 4O-year-old Macapa merchant, collected 66 Ibs. of gold, worth $54,000, on loans totaling $15,000. Young Florisberto Pimentel resigned his job as a government health officer, invested his $600 savings in medicines and sold them for $3,000. "One more trip and I can set up my own drugstore," he said...
After eight months of marriage, Marion Davies, onetime actress and friend of the late William Randolph Hearst, filed suit for divorce from her merchant-mariner husband, Capt. Horace Brown. Two days later, Columnist Hedda Hopper reported "the strangest reconciliation in Hollywood's history." Brown's story to Hedda: "I don't know why she took me back, because I'm a beast. I bought a monkey as a pet, and the monkey bit her. I pulled the phone out by the roots. I went down to her sister Rose's house and shot...
Postwar Europe was like a medieval market town, trying to do business with 16 different kinds of money. Hungry Britain, the ironmonger and coal merchant, was earning more German marks than it knew what to do with, but not enough kroner to buy eggs and bacon from Farmer Denmark. Italy, the green grocer, was picking up all the guilders it could use by selling oranges to Holland, but couldn't buy steel from France because it didn't have enough French francs. Almost every nation's larder was empty of the food and manufactures which its next...
...Just like Christmas" was the way a Denver merchant described his sales last week. All over the U.S., despite the steel strike, retailers had the same kind of good news. Boston department-store sales spurted 6% above last year. Dallas stores chalked up a 16% gain. Sears, Roebuck reported monthly sales of $262 million, a new June record...
Unconcerned. Then came Britain's merchant conquerors. The squires of the East India Co. kicked out the petty princelings and chieftains of the earlier regimes, and appointed their own zamindars from a hodgepodge of ex-rulers, bandits and local opportunists. Their only duty was to pay a fixed revenue each year to the new government. What they collected from the peasants or how they collected it was of no concern to the British. The zamindar imposed taxes at will-to pay for his daughter's wedding, his wife's funeral, his son's birth...