[…] but a few people, like Steffens, found him attractive not simply because he was rich and useful but also because he was an object of study, a coelacanthine oddity in the natural history of commerce.

The economic crisis of the trucking industry has now spread from the independent owner-operators having their tractors repod by the thousands per month to the truck makers themselves - unable to compete with a glut of their own very-depreciated product they are trying to sell off their own repo lots.

Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?

Smaller cruisers bore a variety of rigs, mostly fore-and-aft in character, such as the single-masted cutter, the twin-masted schooner, or the two- or three-masted lugger.