Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life. They are concerned with: Clothes. Textiles are nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns out 2,800 yards of material a week instead of the 150-yard output of the common loom. The fibres are passed through a carding machine, emerging as a broad loose band; then sewn crosswise...
...three men set out in a boat from Ireland and the consequences are their own. Let the three whirl a propeller in the dim mist of an Irish morning, eat nibbly breakfasts, wave carefully courageous goodbyes and set off into the West as though frightened by the rising sun, and the wheels of the world are set churning with their...
British & Irish War Bonds. The way for trading having been made by the listing of Great Britain & Northern Ireland 4% funding bonds (TIME, April 30), last week the New York Stock Exchange admitted to its list the 5% War loan bonds of that same Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. The entire issue is for ?2,088,173,638 (more than $10,000,000,000). As with the 4% funding bonds, trading will be in pounds sterling...
Thus far the Lion's roar has tamed his whelps. Ireland, India, and Egypt have been reminded of their manners with no gentle cuffs. But the cubs are growing older and wiser, and though the Lion grants them petty liberties here and there, they are feeling their strength. Whether or not the strength of Egypt is as yet commanding is a question which only time and the British warships will solve...
...Simmons as head of the Exchange suddenly announced the listing of the Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland 4% bonds and Mr. Sabin's investment company was already prepared to sell ?2,000,000 ($10,000,000) worth. Buyers demanded more than the Guaranty Co. had to sell. But ?386,777,664 ($1,933,888,000) more of the same issue have already been sold by the British government and conceivably, but not probably, U. S. investors may freely trade in them through the new permission of the New York Stock Exchange...