Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safeguard premiums and for payment of possible U. S. claims for war-sunk ships, Lloyd's of London, world's leading insurance syndicate, had transferred $40,000,000 to New York. Meantime, U. S. exporters await anxiously how and whether the Neutrality Act will be applied. Strict enforcement of the Act would prevent exports in vessels of any nationality of arms, ammunition or implements of war for belligerent states- would put a crimp in present foreign commitments outstanding. Just under the wire last week a British steamer slipped out of San Pedro (Port of Los Angeles) with twenty...
...late client Jacob Sloat Fassett (onetime Congressman and Republican leader of New York's Senate) was a backer of Promoter Hunt -this deal seemed fair enough. It looked timely to most of Oriental Consolidated's 829 stockholders (350 English, 224 American, 149 French, 106 scattered). On the London Stock Exchange news of the negotiations jumped the price of shares from 12½ shillings ($2.87) to 35 shillings ($8.05) in three weeks. Accustomed to an average dollar annual dividend on their 429,300 shares, stockholders will now have to trust that Yokohama Specie Bank will repay their capital...
...London church two posters appeared last week. One read, PRAY FOR PEACE. THIS CHURCH IS OPEN ALL DAY; the other, IF YOUR KNEES KNOCK, KNEEL ON THEM. But Europe's war-struck millions needed no such calls to prayer. From the crowded churches of a whole continent rose a spontaneous litany. Some religious footnotes to the week's headlined woe: >Closed to the public were Westminster Abbey's Royal Chapels, their tombs sandbagged, many of their effigies removed. On the black marble slab of Great Britain's Unknown Warrior in the Abbey's nave...
...London, the day war began, censors walked into the Communications Office and took possession. Telephone service beyond the British Isles was suspended. Since formerly news from Europe to the U. S. cleared through London, this meant the imposition of British censorship over nearly all war news. As the censorship began to delay dispatches, the Associated Press and United Press ordered their correspondents on the Continent to file their stories directly to New York, but even then they were hours late. By the fourth day of the war virtually nothing was known of its military progress, and it looked...
When Robert Clive reached Madras one nightfall in 1744 after a 15-month voyage from London, he found India a "battered caravanserai." Its warring kinglets misruled some 90 distinct peoples whose languages were Babel. Its climate was hotter than its curry. Its diseases were "consumptions, fluxes, fevers, cholera, scurvy, berbers (a kind of paralysis), smallpox, gout, the stone, prickly heat, tetters or worms...