Word: londons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only added chaos to confusion. Last week Chairman Legge sought to increase the foreign "lookout posts" for U. S. agriculture from three to ten. He explained: "If we expect to expand our exports and understand our surpluses at home we must know conditions abroad." Proposed U. S. farm outposts: London, Berlin, Paris, Marseilles, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Shanghai. Meanwhile, with the harvest almost over, the major situations confronting the Board last week were as follows: Wheat. A European buyers' strike made the U. S. supply mount up to peak levels, despite this year's reduced yield...
...parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes, do not add much dignity and importance to the leather-pushing game...
...common with most British fiscal authorities Viscount Rothermere blamed the present London Exchange break-which has undoubtedly depressed many sound shares below their real value-on "the Hatry crash and the increase in the Bank rate."* Throughout the week all Britain continued agog over the astounding collapse of the numerous corporations fathered by daring, astute, masterful Clarence Charles Hatry. He sat in jail. But so many great personages are involved (Exhibit A: the Marquis of Winchester, chairman of one of the companies in the Hatry group) that details of the liquidation were kept hushed with a success only possible among...
...British Parliament reconvenes at London...
...that they were not airworthy, that they would crack up. So impoverished Englishmen, troubled by the spending of $10,000,000 on the ships and their accessories, were glum last week when the R-101 sailed from her Cardington hangar. Nor were they as joyous, as she sailed over London, as the Germans have been over the accomplishments of their Graf Zeppelin...