Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary interest the current proceedings of the League of Nations to outlaw aggressive warfare. Never has the prospect of constructive work to this end appeared so favorable as now. The world is war weary, as it was at the close of the Napoleonic wars; but, thanks to the recent London conference, the allies of today present a united front and a harmony of purpose that were lacking in the peace attempts of a century ago. Except in the case of Russia, the nations of today are favored in their efforts by comparative internal stability. The moment is especially opportune, since...
...inspirational preacher in England today. It was a Congregational paper (Barnes is, of course, Anglican?equivalent of Protestant Episcopal in the U. S.) which declared that since Dr. John H. Jowett died (TIME, Dec. 31), no preacher has been able to create a queue outside a church-door in London except Canon Barnes...
Four years ago, Russia, which drank half the world's tea production, was forced to forego luxuries. In consequence, the tea business entered a disastrous slump. About $225,000,000 British capital is invested in the tea industry; some 400 growers in India and Ceylon are financed in London; and about two-thirds of the world's crop is sold in the Mincing Lane market in London. The British made up their minds that if Russians could not buy tea, somebody else must. They subscribed $2,000,000 for publicity and advertising, to increase tea-drinking. Just...
...industry's standpoint, U. S. consumption is particularly interesting. In this country, the average family consumes only five pounds of tea-an eighth as much as is consumed by a British family. We can afford to buy tea-the problem remains to make us wish to. On the London Stock Exchange, shares of tea companies have enjoyed a lively rise, which threatens to continue. The tea planters are well organized and well financed...
Ordinarily the African gold output is sent to London where it is exported to the highest bidder. Owing to the premium on the gold dollar in foreign exchange over the paper pound sterling, the flow of gold from London has been mainly to this country...