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Historically, as "assisted" emigrants, the Canberra's passengers were only following in the wake of the first shipload of British convicts who sailed somewhat less stylishly into Sydney Cove in January 1788. What has astonished officials in Whitehall and Sydney is that Britons are leaving their affluent isle for Australia in greater numbers today than at any time since 1949, when their country was at the grey nadir of postwar austerity. In the first four months of 1963, London's Australia House has received more applications for exile-made-easy than it got in all of 1962. Altogether...
...report with: "The best reorganization would be to appoint me as your new president-director." When the directors did not agree, Verolme left to found his own engineering works. He heard of a demand for Dutch "Haagsche hopjes" candy in the U.S., raised the money to market a huge shipload, and used the profits to import diesel engines from Switzerland to equip the war-torn fleets then rebuilding everywhere...
...while, they liked to listen to John A. T. Galvin around San Francisco. He often regaled cocktail parties with fascinating tales of his past. Such as the time he bought a shipload of calcium compound in the Orient and made huge profits selling it to natives as a remedy for diarrhea. Or the time he cornered the Malayan tin market. Or the time he interviewed Mao Tse-tung as an adventuring reporter in China during...
After the war Milner really got rolling. Going into surplus vehicle sales, he scoured Mississippi for veterans' priority certificates, was able to buy up equipment that could be sold at a tidy profit. Next, he set up as a car and truck importer, bought sight unseen a shipload of tractors for $833,000, which he did not have. Before the ship docked, Milner had sold the tractors for $998,000. Eventually, he acquired four Chevrolet agencies and one Pontiac dealership, and became one of G.M.'s biggest-volume dealers...
...system. The nuclear subs that are its launching platforms can roam the world's oceans at will, difficult to detect and destroy, ready to deliver their lethal birds on targets 1,200 miles away with an accuracy within a mile. One sub alone packs 16 missiles, and each shipload of missiles packs the explosive punch of all the bombs expended by both sides in World War II (including the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...