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...smoke-blackened sandstone building on Tithe Barn (pronounced tie-barn) Street in Liverpool, the world's biggest cotton exchange operated, before the war. Last week the British Board of Trade announced that the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, closed since 1939 would not reopen. The Government had decided to stay in business as Britain's only cotton importer. Britain's 400 cotton importing firms will go out of business...
London, long a Labor field, is now a socialist citadel: 22 of its 28 boroughs. 1,029 of its 1,377 councilors are Labor. Most of the smaller towns and blitzed areas went the same way. Some of the large provincial cities (e.g., Manchester, Liverpool) stayed Tory, but usually in the face of Labor gains. In traditionally Tory Birmingham, Labor nosed out the Conservatives by a single seat...
Amid the tall chimneys of Lancashire a score or more cotton mills had reopened. The radio industry bulged with orders. Shipyards boomed under six-year backlogs. Through the foggy mists of Liverpool rose a forest of cranes, "demobbing" big liners from war to peace...
...university at Shrivenham will be one of three such schools for servicemen and women temporarily stranded in Europe. One opened last month in Florence, and another gets under way this month in Biarritz. (A similar school for technical students only will open at Wharton, near Liverpool, next month.) None of them has been officially accredited by U.S. associations, but students will receive certificates recommending credit in U.S. colleges...
Inevitably, as the trading in rye got hotter & sharper, some traders got hurt. One of those hurt the most (he lost over $800,000) was Vienna-born Bernhard Rosee (pronounced Roo-say), a cosmopolitan gentleman who has traded on the commodity exchanges of Liverpool, Paris, Rotterdam, Bucharest, Winnipeg and New York...