Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are also two photostats of prints in a book on Oxford with engravings done by James Loggan in the late seventeenth century. The original may be found in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. They are entitled "Prospect of Oxford from the East near London Road" and "Prospect of Oxford from the South near Abbington Road...
...third son of George V, the Duke of Gloucester, was in South Africa when recalled. Since his speedy return was not vital he took an ordinary "mail steamer," the Balmoral Castle, from Cape Town, was expected to reach London slightly before Christmas...
...buyers, Messrs. Colnaghi of London, will shortly offer it at public auction in Manhattan...
Metal Exchange. From 60% to 75% of the world's tin supply is produced in the British Empire, but more than half of it it used in the U. S. The only Tin Exchange in the world was in London until, last week, the National Metal Exchange opened at No. 27 William St., Manhattan. Tin futures ranged from 53.50 (cents per pound) on December deliveries to 52.60 on May deliveries. A pig of tin was ceremoniously installed in a glass case in the Exchange rooms...
...this the extent of Biddle Sr.'s enterprises. When a mere youth, he conducted an exhaustive investigation into the condition of the inhabitants of the Madeira Islands. After eight years of preparation, he published a literary work on this topic in which the London Athenaeum, blind to the merits of U. S. enterprise, saw only the "naïve conceit of the compiler...