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...former office on the Bund. An unsmiling crowd of 200 or 300 fell in behind. We trekked over the Garden Bridge, now the "No-Toll Bridge." The Soochow Creek below smelled as bad as ever and was jammed with the same sampans that have been used to unload freighters ever since Shanghai was opened to foreign shipping in 1842 after the Opium...
...dwindling, and by 1980 the U.S. will have to import some 300 million tons of oil annually, most of it from the Middle East and Africa. The cheapest way by far of shipping oil to the U.S. is in supertankers. But where will the great ships unload their cargo...
These are not true islands at all, but great, floating metal docks that cost at least $700 million and are anchored to the ocean floor. Prototypes already exist in the Persian Gulf, Caribbean Sea and off the British Isles. Tugs nudge the supertankers into berths where they unload. So little spillage occurs during this procedure that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is urging that sea islands or equivalents be built at several points off the Gulf and Atlantic coasts...
...concerned, this is the last devaluation." Many speculators clearly did not believe him. Bursts of late selling drove the dollar's price down against the Swiss franc, Dutch guilder and Italian lira. Through Wednesday, the West German Bundesbank found enough buyers of dollars to unload some $950 million of the $6 billion in unwanted greenbacks that it had been forced to buy just before the devaluation, but on Friday it had to buy dollars again to support the price...
...seven cases of Hamm's Beer his DKI sweatshirt, a wrinkled and somewhat threadbare plain jacket from J. Press York Street. New Haven, and one very blonde Midwestern girl--all of it went into a creaking and rather obscene '64 Thunderbird, the same one he had tried unsuccessfully to unload on this ensign from Harvard when he was in the Navy. It had become a ritual even down to the blank check he folded twice and tucked into his wallet just before heading East on interstate 90 Champagne Chuck Yale 69 was going back to New England and this time...