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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France would permit no open trading in the pound. But it still might be possible for dollar-holders (e.g., U.S. traders who import from Britain) to buy francs on the open market, use them to get sterling credit at the official rate through a French agent-in effect, getting a pound for about $3. The British feared that dollars would be diverted from Britain to France, that Britain's booming export trade would bring in fewer dollars than Cripps had planned on. Moreover, with the cheaper francs, French exporters would be able to undersell British rivals...
...first duty of the new administration is obviously to restore confidence in the banking system . . . first of all ... a national bank holiday of about a week ... Whatever solution is put into effect, the era of incompetent banking, banking that exists in so many cases for the maximum of private gain and the minimum of public good must be forcibly brought to a close." (March...
Perhaps as a cause, perhaps as an effect of the turbulent conditions under which the early CRIMSON was published, the location of its building and facilities changed as fast as the editors in its first quarter century...
Skyrocketing food prices had made Canadians good & sore. There had been no organized buyers' strikes, but there was plenty of buyer resistance, and it was having some effect. In Vancouver, sales of beef, bacon and fresh pork were down, even after retailers shaved prices a little. It was the same in Calgary, Toronto and Montreal. In Halifax, the City Council took up a resolution urging provincial and federal governments to "do something immediately about the constantly rising cost of foods," and passed it unanimously...
Strange Bedfellows (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements; produced by Philip A. Waxman) could be called a period suffrage play-or, just as accurately, a sex play, period. It is a mechanically contrived, noisily operated, shamelessly maneuvered piece that achieves all the effect of a bedroom farce without offering even a glimpse...