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Letter from Alexander Merchant, Department of State, Division of the American Republics, to DCR-W, November 9, 1943
No full textIn this letter, the author expresses his favorable opinion of Mr. Emmerson's report on the Japanese of Peru. Merchant praises his "extensive use of Japanese-language," and Spanish language materials as well.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Debates in AI Symposium: Brian Merchant, What\u27s Work Got to Do With It?
No full textBrian Merchant, a technology journalist and former tech columnist at the LA Times, is widely recognized for his insightful analysis of automation, labor and technology’s environmental impact. Merchant is author of the bestselling The One Device (Little, Brown and Company, 2017) and most recently Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (Little, Brown and Company, 2023). This new book explores the Luddites’ misunderstood uprising and the modern implications of tech deployment. In addition to writing for prominent publications, Merchant founded Terraform, VICE’s speculative fiction site. He shares updates and discussions on technology’s societal impact through his newsletter, offering a critical perspective on who technology serves and its broader consequences
The Cantelowe Accounts - Multilingual merchant records from Tuscany, 1450-1451
No full textThe Cantelowe Accounts appear to offer the earliest evidence of an English merchant using Italian as a second language. They were written by John Balmayn, an unknown Londoner, who travelled to Tuscany to oversee the sale of a valuable wool shipment in 1450-51 on behalf of his master - the Mercer, Sir William Cantelowe. The author uses an intriguing mix of four languages, combining Middle English, Latin and Anglo-French with the administrative Tuscan that he has learnt working alongside Florentine partners, such as the Salviati company. Two other striking features of the text are the extensive use of Arabic numerals, unparalleled in fifteenth-century English accounting, and the unusually detailed descriptions of merchant marks that were used to identify the woolsacks. Overall, the accounts are unique amongst multilingual medieval sources and will interest economic historians and historical linguists alike
Interview with Kenneth Sprunt
No full textKenneth Sprunt was born in Wilmington in 1920, the third son of James Lawrence Sprunt. The Sprunts have a long history in and around Wilimington. His grandfather was a cotton merchant in the area and his great-great Uncle is the man for whom James Sprunt Community College is named for as well as the author of Chronicles of the Lower Cape Fear. Mr. Kenneth Sprunt relates his family history both before his birth and after. He spent three years in the Coast Guard during WWII primarily working on anti-submarine warfare in small boats
Interview with Cyril J. Wyche
No full textCyril Wyche, born in Hallsboro in 1923, joined the Merchant Marines in 1943. After receiving training at Sheep's Head Bay in New York he was rated as an ordinary seaman. At the end of the war, as a third mate, he left the Merchant Marines to finish college at Wake Forest before re-joining in 1950 when the Korean War started as an able-bodied seaman
Regulating two-sided markets: an empirical investigation
No full textWe study the effect of government encouraged or mandated interchange fee ceilings on consumer and merchant adoption and usage of payment cards in an economy where card acceptance is far from complete. We believe that we are the first to use bank-level data to study the impact of interchange fee regulation. We find that consumer and merchant welfare improved because of increased consumer and merchant adoption leading to greater usage of payment cards. We also find that bank revenues increased when interchange fees were reduced although these results are critically dependent on merchant acceptance being far from complete at the beginning and during the implementation of interchange fee ceilings. In addition, there is most likely a threshold interchange fee below which social welfare decreases although our data currently does not allow us to quantify it. JEL Classification: L11, G21, D53consumer payment choice, merchant payment adoption, network competition
Northwind Merchant Company
No full text11 p.The author describes his experience developing a small internet retail business selling printer cartidges.Northwind Merchant Company. Morrison, Colorado
Interview with Donald M. Petch
No full textDonald M. Petch served in the US Merchant Marine during WWII. He attended boot camp at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. He was assigned as a Wiper aboard an American Liberty Ship. Petch sailed to various ports along the Mediterranean and North African coastlines. He saw action in the Caribbean and North Africa. Petch received the Caribbean, Atlantic, and Mediterranean medals for his military actions during WWII
Letter from A. H. Woodward to Erve Randall, Alabama, January 18, 1945
No full textA document from an extensive collection spanning four generations of the Woodward family that operated merchant pig iron companies in West Virginia and Alabama. The collection begins with Stimpson Harvey Woodward (S. H. Woodward), a native of Massachusetts, who moved from Pittsburgh to Wheeling, West Virginia in 1852. He had interests in an iron company as early as 1852 in West Virginia and began Alabama operations in 1869. The family business continued in Alabama until the death of S. H. Woodward's great-grandson in 1965
Interview with Henry B. Rehder
No full textHenry Rehder spent three and a half years in the Merchant Marines after unsuccessfully attempting to enroll in both the Army's and Navy's Officer Candidate Schools. With only one year of college, he was not admitted. Through a Wilmington shipping agent he found a job with Merchants and Miners, a shipping firm in Baltimore, taking leave of his family's florist business, and worked aboard the Libery Ship Nathaniel Alexander as a clerk and purser. Aboard the Nathaniel Alexander, as well as several other ships, he visited ports around the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In July of 1945 he returned home and married; he was discharged in December
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