Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Settlement and Ceylon on Nov. 1, 1919. Rubber had sold as low as 11½c a pound in 1921, well below production costs. The Plan immediately restricted output to 60% of tree capacity. Every three months restrictions were to be tightened or relaxed according to prices at the London rubber market. Thus production went down to 50% Nov., 1924, through Jan., 1925. Last February all restrictions were lifted. Rubber prices were amply high...
...half of the $100,000,000 issue was snapped up almost as quickly in London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Budapest. The stabilized Belgian franc, now quoted in units of five francs known as belgas, promptly mounted to a fraction over sterling...
Financial Partners John Pierpont Morgan and Charles Steele withdrew from the directorate of the International Mercantile Marine Co. last April to avoid embarrassing the sale of its White Star Line. Their London firm, Morgan, Grenfell & Co., was trying to sell the fleet to British shippers. That deal was abandoned. Therefore, last week, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Steele resumed their I. M. M. directorships, and the White Star Line will continue for the immediate present U. S. owned but British operated...
...London (Dorothy Gish). According to this picture, from Thomas Burke's Limehouse saga, all a girl needs is the right environment. Plump Dorothy Gish is on the verge of being sold to a Chinaman for three pounds sterling- dirt cheap at the price, too. Fleeing the yellow peril, Dorothy faints in front of a high class a la carte restaurant, is adopted by a sympathetic, wealthy family, marries a good-looking artist...
...went back to his Los Angeles boarding house. Next door lived a gentle Chinaman, who sold fruit and groceries. Perhaps this grocer was a relative of the Chinaman in London who sold ginger and started Author Thomas Burke on his notable career as the biographer of the Limehouse District. Perhaps not. But he soothed sad young Mr. Chrisman, by answering questions, telling stories...