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Quick to criticize this move were English businessmen, struggling to maintain the slow revival of British industry, for a higher rate means higher credit charges. On the other hand London bankers, nervous over the long and steady drain of gold from England, saw in the bank's announcement the only possible way of bolstering the gold reserve, down ?20,000,000 this year and now ?17,000,000 below the irreducible minimum of ?150,000,000, set by the Cunliffe Currency Commission...
...United States to the extent of many billion dollars it would not seem to require Economics A in order to realize the need of an American market for European goods. Whatever other intelligent way is there to move such huge sums across the Atlantic? Certainly to continue to drain Europe of gold is a policy that more resembles the activity of a Cortez than of a government which boasts of its sound good business policy...
...most conspicuous abscess in the world resides in the lower corner of the right lung of His Majesty George V. People all over the world who have ever had to have their pleural cavities drained following pleural pneumonia are vividly conscious that a channel was cut into His Majesty's chest to let the poison drain out. Fortnight ago six royal physicians descried and decided that the royal abscess was not draining properly. They announced that they would have to operate again. To calm a worried public, Court officials quickly declared that the operation would be comparatively minor...
...keep the fire back. Sometimes the wind swung round to aid them, sometimes it veered against them, drove the flames across firebreaks to lick at the nearest roofs. The gas mains burst in Mill Valley. The water supply dribbled out. Two pump engines were hustled to Cascade Canyon to drain an abandoned reservoir. Refugees clogged the roads. Red Cross stations sprang up to treat the injured, house the homeless...
Last week steel-pipe makers rejoiced when Clarence T. Coley, operating manager of Manhattan's old and lofty Equitable Building, and his Chief Engineer Carl W. Poulsen announced that they had discovered a simple way to clear rust from the steel plumbing of their building. They drain the water off and force dry steam into the pipes. The heat makes the pipes expand, the rust shrink loose from the pipes. The steam is released and water flushes the rust away. The pipes become clean, although pitted, and thinner than when bought...