Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speed records between London and Paris were broken last week by an Imperial Airways liner: miles, 230; time, 80 minutes...
Selfridge's (London department store) last week formally opened a new department where Britishers might buy for $32, and as casually as they buy hardware, the wherewithal to put together a television receiving set. Shaggy-haired John L. Baird, inventor of the apparatus, was there; promised to broadcast television programs each night at midnight, and warned that the sets would receive only blurred silhouettes. Television amateurs were interested to hear that a monthly periodical would be issued within a few weeks to tell them how to manage their new sets...
...voices hoarsened for the first time in the life of the New York rubber broker. Brokers sold 20,277½ long tons in 8,111 contracts* for $13,500 in 4½ days. A Rubber Exchange seat was sold for a new high record: $6,600. A cablegram from London was responsible for the crash. Premier Stanley Baldwin had let it be known that the Stevenson Act restricting British rubber production in Malay states, Straits Settlements and Ceylon might become inoperative at some time after...
...Baldwin, with characteristic inadvertence, allowed the great news to leak out in such fashion that alert U. S. correspondents and their papers were able to scoop London by almost 24 hours. This caused a loss to British rubber men which London Rubber Magnate Arthur Anthony Baumann estimated at ?7,000,000. He added caustically, "10 Downing Street [the Prime Minister's residence] is really unfit to govern the Empire...
...London Stock exchange, since the boom of seven years ago, has been as quiet as an untenanted playhouse. The rayon announcement pierced the gloomy hush like a spotlight lighting its stage for the premiere of an exciting play. The scene on the stage was an alley in the City of London, Throgmorton Street. Hustling onto this stage from every entrance came a mob of stockbrokers, those frantic and mysterious vaudevillians, shouting the abandoned gibberish of their lines...