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Jim Hill wasted little time, after gaining full control of the Saint Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba, in sending Farley packing. Hill showed little sensitivity to the old man’s ego, to his greed, or to his clear ability to retaliate. When Farley confronted Hill in the spring of 1879 with the impossible demand that he be made a director of the new c
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sabotage and destruction in Gibraltar, and return undetected. In chapter 13 of Ian Fleming’s novel Thunderball, James Bond tells Felix Leiter of the CIA that the failure to spot what was going on in the Olterra was ‘[o]ne of the blackest marks against Intelligence during the whole war’. The Italian ‘gentleman crook’ in the novel, Emilio Largo, has
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