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Morris has also arranged with other merchants-notably the Providence firm of Brown, Hopkins, Jenckes & Bowen-to seek out arms in the West Indies and Europe for 2½ percent commission. John Brown arranged to buy a cargo of gunpowder in Surinam last November and charged a price of 6 shillings a pound, which General Washington called "most exorbitant" (in December Brown made a profit of ?20,000 for such work). But the price is still rising. On Brown, Hopkins' latest shipment from the West Indies a month ago, the firm had to pay 14 shillings a pound...
...William Bryant of Trenton performed tests on a torpedo of Surinam and proved that it could send a shock "through metallic substances, like an old sword blade," but when the sword was "armed with sealing wax, the electric fluid would not pass...
Walsh has devoted most of his adult life to saving and protecting animals. He took part in "Operation Gwamba," which in 1964 rescued some 10,000 animals from the reservoir area of a new dam in Surinam, worked to curtail the slaughter of baby seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, set up feeding programs for starving huskies near the Arctic Circle and aided animals that survived an earthquake in Peru, floods in Italy and a hurricane in Honduras. But Noah II, which is scheduled to last until Christmastime, is in financial trouble. Letters to nearly a thousand...
...Neigh boring Surinam also claims Guyanese territory in a dispute over riparian boundaries...
...those who believe that educational involvement in Iran is morally wrong, Keenan asks, "Would you collaborate in an institution in the Soviet Union, Algeria, Surinam? Would you let someone die of typhus because somebody else in that country is doing something wrong? You have to decide if the university is a morally uplifting institution. And in my view...