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...Paul, Frank Meyers, who as a successful horse trader has banked more than $250,000, gave his reason for becoming a cab driver at 62: "I like to meet people and hear their troubles...
...Friend, the Enemy. As hard a trader as he is a worker, he is ruthless with the tricksters of the trade. If anyone tries to out-trade him for the last penny, Rank usually manages to beat him out of the last ha'penny. And Rank is also ruthlessly fair, yet does not always take kindly to criticism. To a newspaper critic, he once roared: "Don't you know, when you write that kind of thing, that Christ is looking over your shoulder?" Yet Rank bears no rancor for Cinemactor James Mason, who thinks that Rank...
Colonel Federico Smith, son of an English trader and a hero of the Chaco War, had taken over as Commander in Chief of the Government forces. He promised "peace at a small cost in blood and money...
...Government took control of wheat during the war and closed free trading in wheat on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. But this was the first time Canada has stretched a wartime expediency into long-term peacetime policy. The new bill would make the Wheat Board the world's biggest trader in wheat. Buyers both in and outside Canada could deal only with the Board; Canadian farmers could sell only to the Board at its price; no railway or elevator company could receive wheat without a Board permit. The Board could even suspend any farmer's right to ship grain...
...Oyster Bay and Hyde Park. Roosevelts, all distant cousins to one another, had for a common ancestor Claes Martenszen van Roosevelt, a Dutch trader who came to New Amsterdam around...