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This story is told well in Chernow's chapter "Captains of Erudition," which describes the hellish wrangling between Rockefeller and the free-spending William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago.
The so-called Untouchables have greater opportunities now to rise on the social scale, a few of them becoming captains of industry or cabinet ministers, but it’s still their brethren who sweep the streets.
This study is part of the work of that consortium and the methods are described in detail elsewhere [ 8 36 ] . In brief, between 1993-1995 we interviewed by telephone charter boat captains from consortium states who were active in 1992 and their spouses (presumed frequent GLSCF consumers: captains cohort, n = 1863 households; approximately 83% response rate).
Fortunes were made by respected Bahamian families turned liquor merchants, rum-running boat captains, notorious criminals, shady ladies, and the Bahamas government (which collected duty on temporarily imported drink).
In order to include more persons with low GLSCF consumption, we used random digit dialing with matching to the captains cohort by age and region (first six digits of the telephone exchange) to contact the general population.