Arkansas numerous rivers and streams are among the great assets of the state today, but for much of our history those same waterways were as much hindrance as help. The lack of roads meant that rivers took on much of the responsibility for transportation, but they were great challenges to people traveling overland. Bridges, therefore, were among the most pressing infrastructure needs of 19th-century Arkansas.
Arkansas numerous rivers and streams are among the great assets of the state today, but for much of our history those same waterways were as much hindrance as help. The lack of roads meant that rivers took on much of the responsibility for transportation, but they were great challenges to people traveling overland. Bridges, therefore, were among the most pressing infrastructure needs of 19th-century Arkansas.
A brand-building campaign for the audit profession 19 January 2021: Audit Manifesto: The audit profession needs to re-establish trust but there is no easy path to do so. Authority on brand and trust Dr Jules Goddard talks through some options.
Dr Jules Goddard was working with Baring Bank on the day it went down, destroyed by the fraudulent activities of its head derivatives trader in Singapore, Nick Leeson. Goddard knew its owner, Julian Baring, fairly well; they lived near each other in the south of France. The bank had been with the Baring family since 1762, and in what felt like an instant, it was gone.