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In ten years, he had turned his Money over, so many times, that the traders and shippers who had dealings with him, absolutely did not lie for once when they declared that he had increased his fortune, Twelve Hundred Per Cent. 'He possessed his riches one hundred years ago, when people could be lost easily.
"I take it that there is somebody honest in this country, and that the President, if this bill becomes a law, will select the broadest gauge men, the men highest in integrity and intelligence as the men to enforce this law as against the corporations and as a go- between, if you please, between the shippers and the railroads of the country. I am willing to trust them.
Gentle horses were in good demand among shippers and ranchmen, and during my brief stay I must have handled a thousand head, buying whole remudas and retailing in quantities to suit, not failing to keep the choice ones for my own use.
The idea was that there was a pattern of thinking in sabotage, and if you could solve it, you could outguess the saboteur. But the trouble was to figure out the similarity he felt existed in say a private plane shooting rockets and overhaul mechanics planting booby traps and faked shippers getting bombs on planes and come to think of it, there was Braun.... Braun was the key!
Although it was pretty well ascertained that no actual contraband in the usual sense of the term had been carried from America by the ships which were seized, difficult questions were thus avoided as between liens and general ownerships which might have arisen had American shippers been compelled to go into court.
Consequently the title to the property in such cases was vested in the American shippers, and they urged their Government to see that their interests were protected against what they considered an undue extension of belligerent rights against ordinary neutral trade from one neutral port to another. Mr.
The correspondence found on board that is to say, a letter from the shippers to the consignee states that the cargo is shipped, two thirds on account of the consignee, and one third on account of the shippers the parties being the joint owners of the undivided cargo in these proportions.
Before going to Mexico, Estenega remained for some weeks at his ranchos in the North, overlooking the slaughtering of his cattle, an important yearly event, for the trade in hides and tallow with foreign shippers was the chief source of the Californian's income. He also was associated with the Russians at Fort Ross and Bodega in the fur-trade.
"The railroads are having some trouble with their rolling stock it is hard to get cars. Some shippers are not getting them at all. And the shortage will grow." "Perhaps it will. I don't blame you for buying as low as you can. That's business, Warden. I heard through Lew Brainard, of the Two Diamond, that owners in the South Basin, over at Shotwell, were offered forty just before the round-up.
The huge sugar and coffee product of the island vanished as a commercial factor, and with it the greater part of the colonial carriage of supplies, which had indemnified American shippers and agriculturists for their exclusion from British ports. Of 167,399 American tonnage entering American ports from the West Indies in 1790, 101,417 had been from French islands.
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