Word: shoestringer
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Last month in Scotch Plains, N.J., a shoestring firm called Flanders Hall published a 115-page book called The 100 Families that Rule the Empire. Purportedly, it exposed the planet's best-known interlocking directorate-the British upper classes. Inadvertently, it exposed another, more modest, but significant.
Biggest catch of all was a munitions maker named Nicolas Malaxa. Having parlayed a shoestring into a chain of arms factories and a partnership in Rumania's largest iron works, he found his way into the confidence of Magda Lupescu and King Carol. When the Nazis took over and...
Founder Wright was an infant prodigy. Born in Massachusetts, he was reciting Greek and Latin to Williams College professors before he was ten. When his father took him west to keep the books of The Prairie Store, young Wright spent his spare time taking Chicago's first census, publishing...
The trucking industry grew too fast for its britches, is now a gangling, sprawling adolescent given to waste motions and tripping over its own feet. The U. S. has some 600,000 trucks operating for hire. Two-thirds of the owners are one-man, one-truck outfits started on a...
Son of a Presbyterian parson, "the best man I have ever known," wry-faced little John Buchan grew up in the poetry and parsimony of the Scottish border, went to Oxford on Caledonian determination and a shoestring, published his first book (Scholar Gipsies) to help pay his college expenses. He...