Excerpt from Skinner's Big Idea For years McLaughlin & Perkins had rested covetous eyes on the great possibilities of South American trade. For years they had builded and accumulated and prepared for the great drive down there, as McLaughlin used to put it. "We'll go down there," the senior partner would declare, "and we'll capture that Argentine trade, and then" - his eyes, half-closed, would take on a dreamy, long-seeing look, and his words would come slowly and he would stretch out his fingers and move them over his desk lightly as if he were actually feeling his way physically as well as mentally - "we'll creep up South America - expanding as we come - from sea to sea, taking it all in; all, Perk." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.