Merchants in China, if they became rich enough, found that their strings of coins were too heavy to carry around easily.

The Board of Brokers moved into the Merchants Exchange Building at 3rd and Dock Streets in 1834 following a fire at the coffee house.

Merchants brought their lunch in a food box called sefertas, and the only food on sale was simple dishes such as doner kebab, tavuk göğsü ( a dessert prepared with chicken breast, milk sugar and rose water sprinkled on it ) and Turkish coffee.

The Space Merchants, like such humanist documents as Joseph Wood Krutch's The Measure Of Man and C. S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man, considers what may result from the scientific study of human nature.

The Beginnings of Electric Sound Generation – an exhibit at the Museum of Making Music, National Association of Music Merchants, Carlsbad, CA – some of the earliest electric guitars and their history, from the collection of Lynn Wheelwright and others

Merchants who profited from the American trade began investing in leather, textiles, iron, coal, sugar, rope, sailcloth, glassworks, breweries, and soapworks, setting the foundations for the city's emergence as a leading industrial centre after 1815.

Merchants and artisans from many parts of the Roman world established themselves in coastal Libya and the province was greatly " Romanized ", according to Theodore Mommsen.

Merchants whose goods were being shipped together would pay a proportionally divided premium which would be used to reimburse any merchant whose goods were deliberately jettisoned in order to lighten the ship and save it from total loss.

Merchants benefited greatly from the enforced monopolies, bans on foreign competition, and poverty of the workers.

To this end, he compares George Orwell's Coming Up for Air with Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and concludes that the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum, a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as " a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-( and in the current state of knowledge ) impossible ".

Merchants, artisans, and scholars were transported to Istanbul from Tabriz and Cairo under Selim I ( d. 1520 ).

Merchants from the Mediterranean city-states of Italy and France were eager to exploit the rich trade markets of the east.

Merchants could travel from one end of the empire to the other in relative safety within a few weeks, moving agricultural goods produced in the provinces to the cities, and manufactured goods produced by the great cities of the East to the more rural provinces.

Merchants ( and even temples in some cases ) made ordinary business loans, charging from 20 % to 30 %.

The Dream Merchants ( 1949 ) was a novel about the American film industry, from its beginning to the sound era.

The festival is sponsored by the Seymour Merchants ' Association and is staffed completely with volunteer labor from the community.

" Gibbon Merchants Do Things ", Postcard from around 1900.

Merchants Coal attempted to build Boswell to be a notch above surrounding coal company towns in that plans included a central business district, a high school, and homes constructed from brick, as opposed to the wood used elsewhere.

Merchants and authorities settling from Rome brought with them the Latin language, and eventually the indigenous inhabitants mostly abandoned their languages ( prevalently a variety of Illyrian tongues ) for vulgar Latin.

In " The Merchants of Venus ", the Heechee ( a name given by humans since nobody knows what they called themselves ) are nowhere to be found, and humans know of them only from their artifacts.

Merchants, hoping to benefit from the railroad, began moving their stores across the river, to the tracks.

The City Slickers developed from the Feather Merchants, a band led by vocalist-clarinetist Del Porter, who took a back seat to Jones during the embryonic years of the group.

Merchants, eager to profit from his fame, sold pictures depicting his role in the charge and written chronicles, based on his own accounts, were rushed into print.

… I am a Kentish man, born in a town called Gillingham, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from Chatham, where the King's ships do lie: from the age of twelve years old, I was brought up in Limehouse near London, being Apprentice twelve years to Master Nicholas Diggins ; and myself have served for Master and Pilot in her Majesty's ships ; and about eleven or twelve years have served the Worshipfull Company of the Barbary Merchants, until the Indish traffic from Holland began, in which Indish traffic I was desirous to make a little experience of the small knowledge which God had given me.

Merchants from as far afield as Indonesia and Malaysia passed through Opone, trading spices, silks and other goods, before departing south for Azania or north to Yemen or Egypt on the trade routes that spanned the length of the Indian Ocean's rim.

Merchants arriving from India in the port city of Aden paid tribute in form of musk, camphor, ambergris and sandalwood to Ibn Ziyad, the sultan of Yemen.

* Merchants arriving from India in the port city of Aden pay tribute in form of musk, camphor, ambergris and sandalwood to Ibn Ziyad, the sultan of Yemen.

Merchants arriving from India in the port city of Aden paid tribute in form of musk, camphor, ambergris and sandalwood to Ibn Ziyad, the sultan of Yemen.

* Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism ( 2011 ).

Subsequent rulebooks added " advanced " character generation for Army and Marine characters ( Mercenary ), Navy characters ( High Guard ), Scouts ( Scouts ), and Merchants ( Merchant Prince ).

Furious at what they saw as poor management, many of those assembled organized into a body led by Etienne Marcel, the Provost of Merchants ( a title roughly equivalent to mayor of Paris today ).

He was then commissioned to execute monumental gilded bronze statues to be placed within select niches of the Orsanmichele in Florence, one of Saint John the Baptist for the Arte di Calimala ( Wool Merchants ' Guild ) and one of St. Matthew for the Arte di Cambio ( Bankers ' Guild ).

The series sought to illustrate the cruelty of bigotry against: Asians (" The Fear Merchants ", episode # 27, 1960 ; " The Lonely Man ", episode # 404, 1971 ), African-Americans (" Enter Thomas Bowers ", episode # 164, 1964 ; " The Wish ", episode # 326, 1968 ; " Child ", episode # 305, 1969 ), Native Americans (" The Underdog ", episode # 180, 1964 ; " Terror at 2: 00 ", episode # 384, 1970 ), Jews, (" Look to the Stars ", episode # 90, 1962 ); the disabled (" Tommy ", episode # 249, 1966 ) and " little people " (" It's A Small World ", episode # 347, 1968 ).

Each Caste is associated with a particular color ( Black for the Assassins, White for the Initiates ) or set of colors ( White and Gold for the Merchants, Yellow and Blue for the Slavers ).

This rumor is a plot point of the science fiction novel The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl ( w / CM Kornbluth ).

The town retains a unique character, with a number of small local businesses ( such as a butchers, bakery and fishmonger ) including an off-licence which was established in 1617 ( Bakers Wine Merchants ).

During the early 1950s, Ballantine attracted attention as one of the leading publishers of paperback science fiction and fantasy, beginning with The Space Merchants (# 21 ).

* Greene, John P. Between Damnation and Starvation: Priests and Merchants in Newfoundland Politics, 1745 – 1855 ( 1999 ).

This shipping line was founded in 1972, but has historical links in merger with the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, which dates back to the Qing Dynasty ( 1872 – 1995 ).

Merchants gathered in convoys for safety to convey the goods to Calais ( then an English possession ).

v. Merchants Wholesale, 698 N. W. 2d 136 ( Iowa 2005 ); Brown v. Music, Inc., 359 P. 2d 295 ( Alaska 1961 ).

Goodsall released two albums with his band Fire Merchants, before reforming with Brand X and recording Xcommunication ( 1992 ) and Manifest Destiny ( 1997 ).

Buried in the Churchyard at Church Knowle are the two brothers who brought the first steam locomotive ( Primus ) to Purbeck in 1866-The Pike Brothers-John William and William Joseph Pike ( Purbeck Ball Clay Merchants ).

Member banks of Merchants National consist of: Anderson Banking Company ( 1890 ); Batesville State Bank ( 1889 ); Central National Bank of Greencastle ( 1883 ); Citizens National Bank of Tipton ( 1904 ); Elston Bank & Trust Company ( 1853 ); Farmers National Bank of Shelbyville ( 1886 ); Fayette Bank and Trust Company ( 1902 ); First National Bank of East Chicago ( 1909 ); First National Bank of Indiana, Logansport ( 1931 ); Hancock Bank & Trust Company, Greenfield ( 1874 ); Madison Bank & Trust Company ( 1833 ); Mid State Bank, Zionsville ( 1882 ); Mid State Bank of Hendricks County, Danville ( 1904 ); The National Bank of Greenwood ( 1934 ); The Seymour National Bank ( 1891 ); and Union State Bank, Carmel ( 1923 ).

He was impressed by the findings of the Nye Committee ( 1934 – 1936 ) and by H. C. Engelbrecht's and F. C. Hanighen's book, Merchants of Death ( 1934 ).

In 1664 the Castle was conquered by the English and was extensively rebuilt in the late 18th century by the Committee of Merchants ( whose Governors administered the entire British colony ).

Lavan Chitward is the child of Nelda and Archer Chitward, both prominent members of the Needleworkers ' and Cloth Merchants ' Guilds ( respectively ).

The model of a planet covered in clouds of polymeric formaldehyde dust was never as popular as a swamp or jungle, but featured in several notable stories, like Poul Anderson's The Big Rain ( 1954 ), and Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth's novel The Space Merchants ( 1953 ).

Merchants ' Exchange Building ( Philadelphia ) | Merchants ' Exchange, Philadelphia, PA ( 1832-34 ).

* Merchants ' Exchange, Philadelphia ( 1832 – 34 ).