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As speculators sold off other stocks to rush toward the NP stock, its meteoric rise began to disrupt the stability of the entire market. Genuine panic and bedlam occurred on Thursday as the cornered “shorts” bid up the vanishing stock in a final effort to save themselves. In a spectacular surge, the few shares of remaining NP common passed 300, 700

There was a comic air to the reconquest of the guano islands. Yet, zooming out, we can see the event as an important inflection point in U.S. history. Tiny islands such as Howland proved to be, just as Roosevelt and Gruening foresaw, extremely useful. They and other small pockets of land became the mainstays of the United States’ territorial empire

Saldania future voyages would often make for one of Madagascar’s