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...lumber production, a large coffee exporting firm and Ibo Tours (a travel agency that dominated Haiti's lucrative quickie-divorce market for Americans). He has also trafficked in narcotics and was the silent partner in a firm that paid poor Haitians a pittance for their blood and then resold it at a huge profit in the U.S. Last week Baby Doc terminated the blood business and moved toward nationalizing Cambronne's other enterprises...
...almost no industry in Viet Nam. There are still artisans, out in what American soldiers call "Indian country," using their centuries-old skills to fashion land mines. Saigon has become an arsenal of U.S. consumer goods, from prefab houses to athlete's foot powder, ordered and sometimes resold by Saigon officials. Since U.S. personnel changes roughly every twelve months, Americans tend to maintain a kind of earnest, timeless sangfroid, but around them have gathered "professional beggars, pimps, drug dealers, thieves-a Brechtian cast of characters in the midst of a new Thirty Years...
...foreclosure, directly from FHA, which would be stuck with the house. Romney has estimated that within a few years more than 240,000 units nationwide could be in default -and that the loss would be "catastrophic." Some are so vandalized that FHA demolishes them; others are repaired and resold by FHA, which figures that it loses an average of $10,000 on each single-family house...
Hurt by jet-age competition, the Queens began losing money, and in the late 1960s both were sold to American investors, who intended to use them as hotels and tourist attractions. After rolling at anchor at Port Everglades, Fla., the Queen Elizabeth was resold in 1970 for $3.2 million to Hong Kong Shipping Magnate C.Y. Tung. Renaming the ship Seawise University (a play on his initials), Tung began refitting her as a combination floating school and luxury cruise ship. With the work about 90% completed, she was almost ready for sea trials...
...when he witnessed a will for Mrs. Shirley Pierce. The will named him as executor. After Mrs. Pierce died in November 1964, Wright sold her house to his father-in-law for the modest sum of $5,000. Only two months after the sale, the father-in-law resold the property...