Smith faced the same problems with the ... A branch was to link up with Fort Walla Walla , and another branch could easily be pushed north to Smith's outpost . Douglas feared that trade would drain to the south , sucking the economic ...
... 273 returns to Rocky Mountain House , 265 search for pass to the west , 269-70 skills , 257 , 259 training by Turnor , 285 travels of , 259 , 265-66 Thorn , Jonathan , 252 , 253 , 254-55 tobacco , 176 Todd , John , 320 , 388–89 Todd ...
“He's in a funk,” she announced; the way she said it made it sound as if the funk were terminal. “How can you tell?” Jack asked. “He's drinking V-8 Cocktail Vegetable juice instead of whiskey.” “What caused it?” Jack asked.
The authors of A Future Perfect provide a close-up look at the history of the joint-stock company and examine its influence on world history, describing the institution's continually evolving forms and how it continues to shape global power ...
'I called her to say I was faxing the telephone numbers Morgan had given me, and we agreed we'd meet later, so she could tell me what she'd found out.' I met Oxford's prettiest private eye in a pub called the Head of the River, ...
During his first full term in the Senate Billy Curry began to campaign actively in the Presidential primary states . He went to the next Democratic convention with more delegates than any other contender , but he lacked enough votes to ...
The Company, K.J. Parker's first stand-alone novel, is a tour de force from an author who is changing the face of the fantasy genre.
“ much afflicted with sickness ” etc .: See Paul Hackett , A Very Remarkable Sickness . " they are frightened of going nigh one to another as soon as they take bad ” : William Walker , Cumberland and Hudson House Journals , 1779-82 ...
The Company: A Novel
... companies on the grounds that the British were trying to recolonize the ... construction of the railway, but by the floating of the railway shares.”)4 ... The rise and fall of the juggernauts of corporate America forms a large part ...