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☆ Widowed Before 40 and Coping With the Financial Consequences
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Caitlin Kelly | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It was April 10, 2018, and Colin Brougham hadn’t sent his usual text to his wife that he was biking home. Instead, he lay dead a few blocks away after a commuter train struck him. “I knew he was dead before I knew he was dead,” recalled Rachel Brougham, his widow. “My life as I knew it changed in an instant,” Ms. Brougham, now 46, said. It changes how you think, how you interact with others, how you work.

Persons: Colin Brougham hadn’t, “, ”, Rachel Brougham, Mr, Brougham, Ms, — Locations: Minneapolis

☆ A Sunny Place for Shady People
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Liesl Schillinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Its owner was known to accept paintings in lieu of payment — “My kind of hotel,” Picasso joked. In 1960, burglars broke in and stole 21 canvases, including a Braque, a Léger, a Mirò and a Modigliani. The influential Lord Brougham “discovered” Cannes in 1834, when a cholera epidemic interrupted his progress to Italy. Besotted by the Arcadian surroundings, he built a villa. Other foreign aristocrats followed suit, and 20 years later, Prosper Mérimée complained that “the English are established here as in a conquered land.

Persons: ” Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, Miles, Brougham “, Prosper Mérimée, They’ve, Cap Martin, Queen Victoria, Countess, Balmoral, “, Duchess Anastasia, “ Bertie, ”, King Edward VII, Henry Clews, Frank Jay Gould, Murphys, Edith Wharton, Scott Fitzgerald Organizations: Art, Villa Americana Locations: Saint, Paul, Cannes, Italy, Nice, Beaulieu, La, Menton, Balmoral ”, Russian, Monte Carlo, ”, Antibes, Hyères

☆ UK manufacturers lift 2023 outlook, boosted by aircraft and electronics
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( David Milliken | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Britain's main manufacturing trade body Make UK revised up its outlook for this year on Monday thanks to strong demand for aircraft and electronics, but said it still expects production to fall over the year as a whole. Make UK said it expected factory output to fall 0.3% this year compared with a 3.3% contraction expected three months earlier, and kept unchanged its forecast for 0.8% growth in 2024. "Manufacturers are seeing a gradually improving picture, but the word 'gradually' is doing a lot of heavy lifting," said James Brougham, senior economist at Make UK. Aerospace had been boosted by a resumption of travel and aircraft orders after the COVID-19 pandemic, while demand for electronics partly reflected businesses' desire to counter labour shortages. Supply-chain pressures remain an issue for medium-sized firms, said Richard Austin, head of manufacturing at accountants BDO, who sponsored the survey of Make UK members.

Persons: James Brougham, Richard Austin, Austin, David Milliken, Jan Harvey Organizations: Make, Manufacturers, Aerospace, BDO, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, April's

☆ Celestiq EV is GM’s most audacious Cadillac since Great Depression
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Paul Lienert | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 17 (Reuters) - General Motors Co's (GM.N) Cadillac brand on Monday pulled the wraps off the Celestiq, a $300,000-plus flagship electric vehicle that is the brand's most audacious new model since the 1930 Cadillac Sixteen. Unlike the 16-cylinder roadster that was launched just months after the 1929 crash, the 2024 Celestiq has no monster gasoline engine under its long hood. Instead, it boasts twin electric motors producing 600 horsepower and a 111-kilowatt-hour battery pack shared with GM's Hummer EV. The Sixteen could be ordered in 1930 in several body styles, including roadster, coupe, sedan and limousine. The late historian Beverly Kimes noted that the 1930 Cadillac Sixteen Town Brougham was priced at just over $9,000, or roughly $163,500 in today's money.

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