Sublime

Bernician kings of the mid-seventh century were wont to install their sons as equivalent subreguli in Deira, partly as a policy of devolved dynastic government, partly as training and partly so that they could keep an eye on potential rivals coming up on the rails.

R. J. Reynolds, like the other conglomerates that had invested in ship lines, was learning that container shipping was not the gold mine it had imagined.27 In desperation, the leading carriers on important routes tried an old-fashioned solution: reducing competition. Five competitors in the Europe–Far East trade, two British, two Japanese, and the