Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reduced to essentials the argument understood to have been presented by Mr. Thomas at Ottawa last week may be stated thus: 1) Canada is smarting today at the certainty that she will lose much of her export trade to the U. S. when the new higher tariff bill is passed at Washington (see p. 13); 2) Canadian newspapers are clamoring that the Dominion should retaliate by raising her tariff on goods which the U. S. is anxious to sell to Canada; 3) Canada has been importing every year some 50 million dollars worth of U. S. coal; 4) If Canada...
Last fall Her Royal Highness journeyed into chill Ireland to the famed Belfast shipyards of Harland & Wolff especially to honor the White Star Line. She understood that they were going to build the largest ocean liner in the world, the gargantuan Oceanic of 60,000 tons. Graciously and with appropriate pomp Princess Mary inaugurated work on the Oceanic's 1,000-ft. backbone, or keel...
...seas the year after next and prove slower than the 50,000-ton Bremen, vexed White Star officials would have on their hands not an asset but a debit. Clearly the Bremen has started an international speed war between all lines. At Belfast last week potent Shipwrights Harland & Wolff understood that Baron Kylsant would demand that they build for the White Star Line not only the largest but the fastest liner in the world...
...after the shooting Prince Hsien Kai expired quietly after coughing up much blood. It was then explained by Chang Tsung-chang that the police had not quite understood what he had told them about the pistol. Not he but his secretary had been handling it. The secretary swore that this was true. A dozen of Chang's concubines confirmed the fine new story. Policemen scratched their heads. Finally, officials indicted Chang for murder, suspecting him of having suspected the Prince of fiddling about in his harem...
...must be clearly understood that the Exchange is not listing property itself, but only the securities of the corporations handling the property. The investor will not buy the Chanin Building at so much a share but will buy stock in the Chanin company. If the investing public can be induced to think of real estate in terms of stocks and bonds and not in terms of brick and earth, there would seem to be no reason why the investing public will not learn to trade in real estate securities...