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...Antwerp, largest diamond cutting centre of all, Belgian diamond magnates gathered to discuss the impossibility of finding work for 15,000 highly paid cutters, decided to suspend all operations from...
...London, the Diamond Syndicate, source of over 90% of all gem diamonds, announced that it would for the time being suspend all offers of raw diamonds to the trade.* Observers sensed, in last week's announcement, the wily hand of Solly Joel, London tycoon and onetime South African miner, potent in Syndicate circles...
...years he held the same seat in Parliament; for 62 years he was a journalist. He was a wholehearted defender of the late great Thomas Parnell, imprudent Irish statesman. He gave George Bernard Shaw his first job as a music critic. Three weeks ago, illness forced him to suspend the last of his publications, T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly (TIME...
...railroad from the port to the capital (San Jose) is operated by U. F. C.; of the townspeople of Port Limón, 95% are employes of U. F. C. And only U. F. C. ships touch at Port Limón. Hence last week, when U. F. C. threatened to suspend trade with Costa Rica, Port Limón had reason to feel that life itself was being threatened...
Working like a beaver President Luis strove to avert catastrophe. Timorous coffee brokers announced that the coffee exchanges of Santos and Rio de Janeiro would suspend trading '"indefinitely." Came urgent messages from President Luis. The exchanges reopened. Frenzied coffee speculators begged the President to save the coffee situation by declaring a general moratorium. This he flatly refused to do, patiently explained how ruinous to Brazil's commercial credit such action would be. The result of the week's alarums and pronouncements seemed to leave President Luis, like Atlas, supporting Brazil's top-heavy coffee market...