"Smith, Wilber - Hungry as the Sea" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith Wilbur)

As Managing-Director in charge of operations, Mr. Nicholas Berg helped
to build Christy Marine from a small coasting and salvage company into
one of the five largest owners of cargo shipping operating anywhere in
the world.

After the death of Arthur Christy in 1968, Mr. Nicholas Berg succeeded
him as Chairman, and continued the company's spectacular expansion.

At present, Christy Marine has in commission eleven bulk carriers and
tankers in excess of 250,000 dead weight tons, and has building the
1,000,000 ton giant ultra-tanker Golden Dawn. it will be the largest
vessel ever launched.

There it was, stated in the boldest possible terms, the labour of a
man's lifetime. Over a billion dollars of shipping, designed, financed
and built almost entirely with the energy and enthusiasm and faith of
Nicholas Berg.

Mr. Nicholas Berg married Miss Chantelle Christy, the only child of Mr.
Arthur Christy. However, the marriage ended in divorce in September of
last year and the former Mrs. Berg has subsequently married Mr. Duncan
Alexander, the new Chairman of Christy Marine.

He felt the hollow nauseous feeling in his stomach and in his head the
vivid image of the woman. He not want to think of her now, but could
not thrust the image aside. she was bright and beautiful as a flame -
and, like a flame, you could not hold her. when she went, she took
everything with her, everything. He should hate her also, he really
should. Everything, he thought the company, his life's work, and the
child. When he thought of the child, he nearly succeeded in hating her,
and the newsprint shook in his hand.

He became aware again that five men were watching him, and without
surprise he realized that not a flicker of his emotions had shown on his
face. To be a player for fifteen years in one of the world's highest
games of chance, inscrutability was a minimum requirement.

In a joint statement issued by the new Chairman and incoming members of
the Board, a tribute was paid.

Duncan Alexander paid the tribute for one reason, Nick thought grimly.
He wanted the 100,000 Christy Marine shares that Nick owned.

Those shares were very far from a controlling interest. Chantelle had a
million shares in her own name, and there were another million in the
Christy Trust, but insignificant as it was, Nick's holding gave him a
voice in and an entry to the company's affairs.

Nick had bought and paid for every one of those shares.