Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaking before the National Council of Women at London I said: 'There are many women more qualified to adorn the Episcopal bench than those who occupy it at the present moment...
...Saadat Ali Khan, Indian potentate: "I have just had built for me, in London, a special hunting motor car, camouflaged in green, brown and other jungle shades, to deceive lions and tigers. There is also a dazzle light to blind them. The car, which cost about $20,000, is of 50-horsepower, with special buffers, front and rear, to protect it from charges by wild animals. I have added an ice box, for drinks...
...physical appearance of the city. Lastly, to perpetuate his name in worthy fashion, he gave $3,000,000 to build, an aquarium in Chicago, for which he sent a commission to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity at Berlin, lighting in London. The Shedd Aquarium, now under construction, will contain 131 exhibition tanks with some of the rarest fish in the world...
Last week the price of tin on the London Metal Exchange was ?309 ($1497.11) a ton, the practical equivalent of the New York Metal Exchange's current quotation of nearly 70? a pound. These are slightly lower than the recent peak prices of more than ?318 ($1,540.71) at London and more than 71? at Manhattan. London gambling in tin has apparently ceased for a while, but London's control of this metal has not, for Great Britain holds suzerainty over the Federated Malay States (holders of 50% of the world's tin ore stores*) and controls...
Belgian Financing. J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Guaranty Co. of Manhattan were to offer $50,000,000 of Belgium bonds this week to fortify Belgian credits with the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Simultaneously another $50,000,000 were to be sold in London, Brussels, Amsterdam and Berlin to establish credits with English and Continental banks of issue. This is the first time since the War that one of the Allies has sold bonds publicly in Germany. Specialty Shops tradesmen of Portland, Ore., individualists catering to individualistic customers, have adopted a program of enlightened co-operation to offset...