Word: tradesmen
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...more than just a governing caste. Though they are often all loosely called colons, only 22,000 of them are landowners, and of these only a few score are genuinely wealthy. The rest of Algeria's Europeans are policemen, office workers, garage proprietors, locomotive drivers, skilled laborers and tradesmen who call themselves French but call Algeria home. To their talent and initiative, the land owes such economic strength as it possesses...
...time and time again. For more than 200 years the house, now known as No. 10 Downing Street, has been one of the most unsuitable and yet tenacious of all government buildings. It is a house with only a front door, and Commonwealth ministers sometimes arrive as tradesmen leave...
...Mortician's Magazine discusses the problems of its tradesmen with time-tested aplomb. Softspoken, but firm, the magazine urges its members to live up to standard--warning its subscribers, for example, not to use summer fluids with winter creeping on. A long dissertation with much good advice is entitled "Embalming Dropsical Bodies" (we shan't bother to discuss it here...
...worse than those who die at sea and get no benefit from the tradesmen, are those who want inexpensive funerals. One mortican describes how he did it for a friend. "I kept the rose shades on the lamps in the reposing room and saw to it that there were no bright lights in the chapel...
...torrent of foreign exchange-$300 million in the first eight months of this year. As a result, Colombia should be solvent, sound and stable. Instead, after two years of political mismanagement of its income, Colombia is setting off economic alarm bells both at home and abroad. It owes the tradesmen of the world around $345 million, and has become the No. 1 collection headache for U.S. exporters. The debt has sapped the nation's credit, its currency and its reserves. "The Colombian economy," said a U.S. Government official whose business it is to know the country well, "is being...