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...shortest line between Liverpool and the great wheatfields of the Canadian Northwest passes through Hudson Bay. European ships have slipped in and out of Hudson Bay since the 17th Century. For the past 50 years there has been agitation for a railway and port on the Bay to take out wheat without sending it overland 1,000 miles farther to Montreal. When Canadians began to work seriously on the problem it was discovered that there were only two possible ports on the western side of Hudson Bay: Port Nelson, at the mouth of the tidal Nelson River, and Fort Churchill...
...Farm Board rejected it-on the ground the price was too low. Germany had offered to take the 600,000 bales in return for a three-year credit of about $30,000,000 at 4½%. The price was to be a monthly average of the New York, Liverpool and Bremen Cotton Exchanges' cash quotation. The Farm Board had taken its cotton at about 16? per Ib. or less, leaving the Farm Board about $30,000,000 in the red on the deal...
...probably later the Allan line operated at least one steamer, passenger and freight, the S. S. Nova Scotian between Baltimore and Liverpool via Halifax, N. S. and St. John...
...Archbishop of Wales could not come. Lady Ampthill and Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith sent their regrets. The Archbishop of York thought the use of his name was enough. Professor Hector Hetherington of Moral Philosophy at Liverpool University had a previous engagement. But an immense crowd of "Adults Only" hurried to Central Hall, Westminster and waited breathlessly to hear the real truth about Hon. Violet Blanche Douglas-Pennant, onetime Commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force...
...Liverpool, which the King Emperor has known throughout his reign as England's second nosiest city, went down last week before Birmingham which is now the only English city except London with over 1,000.000 population...