In his latest collection of travel papers, "Letters of Travel" Rudyard Kipling says: He (a foreigner) knows that the maxim in London, Yokohama and Hongkong in doing business with the purebred American is to keep him waiting, for the reason that forced inaction frets the man to a lather, as standing in harness frets a half-broken horse." Never was the truth of this statement so adequately illustrated as at the present time in New York. Forced inaction is fretting most business
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