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Cocoa Exchange. The Manhattan Cocoa Exchange transactions are about twice as large as transactions on all other cocoa exchanges combined, with London and Liverpool exchanges ranking next in size. It was originally (1925) planned as a cocoa and rubber exchange, but the rubber men did not come in and now have their own exchange. Outstanding furnishings on the rather sparsely equipped Exchange floor include a large battery of telephones and a brass-rail circle occupied by camp-chairs on which the traders perch. Compared to the Wall Street Exchange, there is a noticeable absence of fury, frenzy; the building...
Teachers from the University of Liverpool and Oxford Universities, as well as practicing London architects, will assist in the various courses in the English School, which will include city planning, design, and landscape architecture. The courtesy of many famous British manors has been extended to the new school, and trips will be planned to visit and study them. The courses will extend through July and August, being open to all properly qualified students and giving them credits in their respective universities...
...Canadian National would have seemed like a battle between the strong and the weak; the prosperous and the poverty-stricken, the lion and the lamb. President Edward Wentworth Beatty of the Canadian Pacific heads one of the world's famed transportation systems. Travelers can journey from Liverpool to Yokohama on Canadian Pacific liners and trains and stop en route at Canadian Pacific hotels. The company also operates its own express, telegraph and news services...
...then buy and make delivery when the bonds were practically worthless. Over the 50-mile gap in the telegraph line to Halifax gangs of linemen strung a temporary wire; and in thirteen days-so well had he calculated-Fisk flashed over it the one word "Go!" His clipper reached Liverpool five days before the official report of Southern defeat. The only reason that Fisk and his capitalists did not make their everlasting fortunes was that one of them had secretly, timidly, limited the sale to five million...
Died. Capt. Samuel Bolton, 56, of the White Star Steamship Doric; in Liverpool, England...