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 carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca, Arabia ( approximate date ).

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

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.

* The Devil of the Desert vs the Son of Hercules ( released in Italy as Anthar the Invincible ) 1964, ( a. k. a. The Slave Merchants, a. k. a. Soraya, Queen of the Desert ) starring Kirk Morris, directed by Antonio Margheriti

Increasingly, the Italian Merchants from the wealthiest states in Italy, especially Genoa and Venice joined in the lucrative trade and some members sported exotic lackeys and few domestic or workshop slaves whereas before slavery was forbidden in Christendom and only formerly in Muslim Spain and Sicily and their buffer border marches were seen and legally allowed.

* Ferdinando I De Medici, Document Inviting Jewish Merchants to Settle in Livorno and Pisa, in Italian, Manuscript on Vellum, Florence, Italy, 10 June 1593 ( fac-simile )

In Italy, he produced his “ Venus ,” “ Moses and Aaron on Mount Horeb ,” “ Infant Bacchus ,” and “ Flight into Egypt .” His work also includes a full-length portrait of Admiral David Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay ( purchased by a committee in 1871, and presented to the emperor of Russia ), the “ Holy Family ” ( 1837, now at the Boston Athenaeum ) and “ The Young Merchants ” ( now at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia ).

The records of a lit de justice of Charles V, May 21, 1375, gives an impression of the panoply of personages: the Dauphin, the duc d ' Anjou brother of the King, the Patriarch of Alexandria, 4 archbishops, 7 bishops, 6 abbots, the rector and several members of the University of Paris, the Chancellor of France, 4 princes of the blood, several comtes and seigneurs, the Provost of Merchants and the echevins of the city of Paris, " several other wise and notable folk and a great crowd of people ".

Merchants were required to pay a higher rate of 240 coins.

Merchants who had made a fortune ordered new houses built along one of the many new canals that were dug out in and around various cities and towns ( for defense and transport purposes ), houses with ornamented facades that benefited their new status.

Merchants and manufacturers could be found in the unincorporated settlements of Whiteford Center and Ottawa Lake, the latter being home to a large stave mill in which residents were employed during the 1870s and 1880s.

Merchants Coal, and the related Orenda Coal, were subsidiaries of Hillman Coal and Coke Company of Pittsburgh, the same firm that built the neighboring town of Jerome, Pennsylvania.

When the British government allowed control of the Gold Coast settlements to revert to the British African Company of Merchants in the late 1820s, relations with Asante were still problematic.

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

Merchants that had gained a fortune ordered a new house built along one of the many new canals that were dug out in and around many cities ( for defense and transport purposes ), a house with an ornamented façade that befitted their new status.

Merchants, importers / exporters, and " stock jobbers " were growing very wealthy.

Merchants were then paying larger amounts in tariffs, increasing the king ’ s revenue.

Merchants and lower-ranked nobles were often bilingual in Anglo-Norman and English, whilst English continued to be the language of the common people.

Four more were awarded by Entertainment Merchants Association in 1993, 1995 and 1997.

Merchants from Spain & Portugal were frequently visiting the town for Trade and commerce.

With no Chinese-born architects in Chicago at the time, Chicago-born Norse architects Christian S. Michaelsen and Sigurd A. Rognstad were asked to design the new On Leong Merchants Association Building in spring, 1926.

* Merchants were not taxed for inventory in their attics, therefore offering incentive to stuff their wood attics with flammable goods such as wool, textiles, and paper stocks.

Merchants were forbidden to take their goods elsewhere and charge a higher price, and transport costs could not be used as an excuse to raise prices.

Négociants, who are also called Wine Merchants / Traders, were the dominant force in the wine trade until the last 25 years for various reasons:

Merchants and millers were often threatened or attacked if their prices were high.

Some of the first developments in Salford Quays were residential, initial builds consisting of traditional low-rise flats and town houses in Grain Wharf and Merchants Quay.