Word: brettenham
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...lifted tin production quotas to 110% of 1929 levels without abating a mad metal market (TIME, March 22), was precise Sir John Campbell, economic and financial adviser to the British Colonial Office. Whatever Sir John's first considerations were as he walked into the highceilinged committee room in Brettenham House next to Waterloo Bridge, the problem at hand was essentially one of trying to keep skyrocketing rubber prices from knobbling the British armament race without jeopardizing anticipated profits in rubber, which will help Great Britain's balance of international payments. Result I was that the committee cautiously sanctioned...
Although U. S. rubbermen use one-half the world's rubber, they have nothing to say about production, which is largely in the hands of the British, the Dutch and the French. Sitting in at Brettenham House...
...Brettenham House, he speaks only when spoken to. last week, entitled to speak only when spoken to, was President Albert L. Viles of the Rubber Manufacturers Association, which is the nearest thing to a trade "institute" individualistic U. S. rubbermen will tolerate. Had he been asked, Mr. Viles would have told the committee that U. S. rubber consumption was currently running 16% ahead of last year while rubber stocks on hand have dipped below the 200,000-ton mark for the first time since 1930. At the end of last year each of the Big Four U. S. rubber companies...
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