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In ways that could not be captured in written sources, photographs demonstrate women taking nationalist activities into their own hands: challenging policemen, drumming up support for boycotts, addressing crowds, directing salt production, and courting arrest.

Even without the adrenaline of a packed room, he drummed up a bidding war and ultimately sold Francis Bacon’s “Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus” for $85 million.

He wanted to return to the city where he had lived and worked in the industry for 17 years to see if he could drum up old connections for new work.

To drum up business, dispensaries are responding with outlandish workarounds.

Nuclear power start-up Oklo has gotten heat for not generating revenue, and now it is reporting a wider operating loss than a year ago as it drums up business.