“We got them where we want them,” said Andrew Harkiss, recovered from the Spanish flu that had killed Chicagoans like chickens. Great rollers of change beat on national shores: newly independent but poor countries, once the colonial holdings of the great European powers, struggled to join the global scuffle. “What these countries have is the raw materials—forests and minerals and oil. We’d be fools not to get in on this, South America, Asia—all kinds of hardwood. It’s our chance.”
