Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Connecticut is the best bet to get the mill in the end. Ample acreage, good port facilities and railroads, an excellent fresh water supply in the Thames River, plus a proximity to the firearms and precision instrument factories in southern New England, all make New London the most logical site. New London would like the will, furthermore, because the city has felt serious unemployment with the closing down of so many Coast Guard activities; like all the other cities, New London would be glad to see the 20,000 to 30,000 jobs that the mill would make whether...
There years ago the halftime and final scores were cabled to the Harvard Club of London, but no such plans have been announced this year. Last year, Harvard and Yale men in the West followed news ticker accounts of the game at special joint meetings, but the plan has been abandoned this year...
When the British government raised the lid on the newsprint ration last January, newspaper circulations soared, but none of the dailies rocketed to such stratospheric heights as the Sunday papers. The sexy, sensational Sunday Pictorial, weekend sister of Harry Guy Bartholomew's London Daily Mirror (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947), jumped 730,000, biggest gain for any British newspaper. By last week, the combined circulation of Britain's eleven national Sunday papers had hit an astounding 30 million copies a week...
...Stock Exchange, the cheap stock of a Philippine gold-mining company, Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., was among the heaviest traded. Wall Street's Bache & Co. was busily selling unrefined gold (the only kind that can be legally held in the U.S.) at premium prices ($44 an ounce). In London, South African gold-mining stocks were ones eagerly bought in a falling market...
Passport to Pimlico. A small section of London takes hilarious advantage of its chance to secede from the Commonwealth (TIME...