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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inkling that Sir Malcolm might have roughed out in recent months a reciprocal trade agreement between Britain and Argentina which awaited only final negotiation by Viscount d'Abernon and his confirmation in behalf of the Imperial Government. At Buenos Aires the Jockey Club banquet was followed by rapid, intensive, well-hushed work. Paradoxically, the first official announcement of success was made in far off London. To respectful British newsgatherers a frosty official of the Foreign Office cau- tiously revealed that: 1) The agreement signed by Viscount d'Abernon last

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trade Embassy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...London announcement was cabled to Argentina, ferreting Buenos Aires reporters wormed out the further fact that the d'Abernon mission had arranged an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of £16,000,000 ($77,760.000) to facilitate the mutual buying and selling provided for in the main agreement. The usually well-informed La Prensa declared that the British Government would use its £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) purchases of Australian food and raw materials "to feed and clothe the British Army and Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trade Embassy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...east and west. Financial news printed in Eastern business newspapers reaches California too stale to be news. And Westerners certainly deserve fresh financial news. So with these things considered, we thought it would be best to inaugurate a separate Pacific Coast edition." Western brokers viewed the plan with approval. Well known to them is the man selected to be the Journal's editor-H. C. Hendee, head of Dow, Jones's Pacific Coast financial ticker news service, once a newspaper reporter on the Detroit News with Mr. Hogate. The establishment of the Journal seemed a natural out- growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: West of Wall Street | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Mellon utility interests a group of light and power companies along the St. Lawrence River. Significant indeed was this transaction, but in a larger sense it was only a milestone along the Morgan utility road. When the economic textbooks of the future are written, the year 1929 may well be famed as the year in which the House of Morgan became also a Power House, and the St. Lawrence purchase be cited only as one of many steps in Morgan utility progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Morgan Power | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...organizations [investment trusts] are prominent and which will undoubtedly, occasion difficulty unless it is abandoned." It appeared, therefore, that Continental Chicago Corp. would function as a financial foster-father for Chicago and Midwestern industry, would provide funds for the expansion of many a middle-western business, and that its well-being would not be inseparably connected with the upward revisions of market quotations. In discussing the new company, however, Mr. Reynolds issued a bullish bull to the effect that it would not have been considered "if we had not felt completely confident in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Third Step | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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