Word: end
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite Chancellor Churchill, thousands of Britons daily continued putting down thousands of sixpence to buy copies of Mr. Lloyd George's Orange Book, a pamphlet explaining how the Liberals hope to end unemployment by putting the unemployed to work on a great state program of road building and other public works. "We mobilized for war, let us mobilize for prosperity!" reads the cover of the Orange Book. Above is a cut showing a huge, smiling Lloyd George, arms outstretched in a gesture suggestive of showering gold-pieces upon gladsome, marching files of tiny soldiers and workmen...
...Philippines, and throughout Oceania there was much wailing, beating of breasts, disposing of chattels at the arrival of "the end of the world"-and much surprise when the world went on. The Siamese were much upset for fear of royal disasters produced by the eclipse. At the eclipse of 1868, King Rama IV, an amateur observer, caught cold from exposure and died of pneumonia...
...over three hours in actual duration. It covered some 110° of longitude, 45° of latitude, beginning in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa at dawn. Traveling in a northeasterly direction-into regions where the day was more advanced-it crossed the Equator, swung eastward, ended at sunset in the Pacific Ocean between Guam and New Guinea. Although a partial phase of the eclipse was visible in parts of Africa, southern Asia and a large part of Oceania, totality (where the full shadow of the moon fell upon the earth's surface) was over...
Skippy cries bitterly at the end of the book. More cheerful to contemplate are Skippyisms from the early, ragamuffin chapters. Samples...
...Always attacking, never merely defending, Mr. Simmons next proceeded to argue that to divert "the enormous masses of capital today invested in stock market loans'' into "commercial business" would "produce a huge rise in commodity prices, inflation of inventories, and an artificial business boom . . . which could only end in a colossal smash." In other words, if business in general had the money now in brokers' loans, it would swell up and burst. There is more capital extant "than the country knows what to do with." The safe place for this capital is in the Stock Market, pictured...