Rose George Quotes
Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.
George, Rose. Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate. Metropolitan Books, 2013.
“Schmoozer” is a Yiddish word to describe people why spend time discussing things. New York politicians like Tweed picked up ethnic expressions which became common in the New York political dialogue.
Earl of Stockton. This slogan was included in the text version of this particular speech, even though at this occasion he actually never said it.
America’s first political economist
Rose George is a British journalist and author. She began writing in 1994, as an intern at The Nation magazine in New York City. Later, she became senior editor and writer at COLORS magazine, the bilingual "global magazine about local cultures" published in eighty countries and based first in Rome, then Paris, then Venice. In 1999, she moved to London and began a freelance career and has since written for the Independent on Sunday, Arena, the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Details, Bad Idea and others. Along the way, she has been war correspondent in Kosovo for Condé Nast Traveler magazine and was twice a guest at Saddam Hussein's birthday party. Until 2010, she was senior editor at large for Tank, a quarterly magazine of fashion, art, reportage, and culture based in London.
