Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many first-class passengers had scarcely been out of Britain before. A lawyer whose hobby is the antiquities of London looked forward to meeting the governor of Georgia, with whom his American son-in-law was acquainted. "Do you suppose," he wondered, "that it would be indelicate of me to ask His Excellency-is that right, do you call him His Excellency?-what that mixup was all about that time they seemed to have several governors of Georgia? Would he mind discussing...
...Attlee approach was, in the words of London's Economist, "the planners' last chance." It might end much of Labor's vague mismanagement. But by Attlee's own estimate, it could only carry Britain through the winter to face another, even bigger crisis in 1948. At that time, many observers believed, Britain would have to tap her last gold reserves and thus stand on the brink of national ruin...
Some in the black and grey garb of the City represented British banks and insurance companies. Others, in tweeds, represented only themselves. Outwardly, as they trooped up the white steps of Beaver House on London's Garlick Hill one day last month, they were typical Britons. But they were Britons with a difference. These were "the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay," come together for the 278th general court (annual meeting...
...profits (from ?1,717,397, to ?1,068,803) is largely due to the sharp fall in inventory prices in the fur trade. . . . The directors anticipate . . . some further downward adjustment. . . ." But Sir Patrick was confident. The company, he said, was well on the way to re-establishing London's eminence in the world's fur markets; the future looked bright...
...Queen Victoria herself drove past and ordered the carriage slowed while she put on her spectacles to favor Tate's treat with an approving stare. The gallery-looming like a giant white stone wedding cake above the trees at Millbank-was destined to become almost as familiar a London tourist-haunt as Madame Tussaud's waxworks. Last week, the Tate was celebrating its 50th anniversary with a crowd-pulling show from its own storerooms, which boast Britain's best collection of English painting (including a fine group of Blakes) and of modern...