City of London Financial Hub of the British Empire
Washington dispatch details the City of London as a compact one square mile financial center. The piece highlights the Bank of England, Lloyd’s of London, Rothschild, and Child’s Bank, plus historic sites from the Tower to St Paul’s, marking the area as the empire’s journalism and finance core with centuries of tradition and architecture.
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City of London Financial
British Empire
Union
Washington
London
City
England
Thames
National Geographic Society
Bank of England
Financial House of Rothschild
Child's Bank
Dickens
Tellson's Bank
Inns of Court
Fleet Street
Tower of London
London Bridge
Clerkenwell Road
London Wall
Newgate
Aldgate
Cripplegate
William the Conqueror
Temple Bar
John Milton
Thomas More
Charles Lamb
William Penn
Chaucer
Grub Street
Paternoster Row
Gough Square
Dr. Johnson
Middle Temple Hall
Shakespeare
William Harvey
Gog
Magog
Johnson
Boswell
Old Bailey
John Bunyan
William Blake
Daniel Defoe
John Wesley
George Fox
St. Paul's
Empire
Red Lion Court
Farm Prosperity Edges Up As Income Rises
Farm prosperity continues to improve with farm income the best in 10 years and prices about 5 percent higher than last year. Demand grows from expansion in industry and consumer incomes, boosting retail sales 10 to 15 percent above a year ago despite a recent holiday peak.
Workers' Income Rises as Expenses Stay at 1936 Level
The Northwestern National Life Insurance study finds average urban workers gained about seven dollars monthly in late 1940 while living costs remained near 1936 levels. The report notes a record rise in purchasing power due to higher payrolls, with stable or lower costs offsetting modest price changes.
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Minneapolis
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Army Mechanic Rescues Navy Aviator in Desert
Technical Sergeant O A Miller, a veteran air corps mechanic at Randolph Field Texas, helped a Navy training plane make a forced desert landing near Gila Bend Arizona. He diagnosed the engine using an auto tool kit and got the aircraft running again with a passing motorist directing traffic. Ensign Robert E Lee USNR sent a thanks letter noting the hazardous save.
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Army
Navy
Randolph Field
Texas
O. A. Miller
Air Corps
Arizona Desert
Gila Bend
Desert
Miller
Robert E. Lee
Ensign
USNR
Reciprocal Trade Plans Hold Key to Postwar Peace
Washington outlines a peace machine in Hull's reciprocal trade plan, a system of mutually profitable commerce that proponents say could forge a free world economy after war. Hull's career, from London talks to Britain trade pacts, is highlighted as a hope amid pessimism.
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WN Service
National Press
Brig
Washington, D. C
Washington
Europe
Cordell Hull
Hull
Germany
Hjalmar Schacht
Hitler
Mr. Hull
Raymond Moley
South America
Great Britain
Cordell Hall
British Farm Program Undergoes Changes
The piece notes wartime shifts in Britain's agriculture with grassland changing to wheat fields to meet grain needs as air raids spare farms, livestock losses remain moderate, and compensation applies only to edible carcasses. It also covers Canada’s wheat storage plans and potential terminal builds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Scandinavia
Britain
Department of Agriculture
Wiltshire
Foreign Relations Division
Food Ministry
Canada
Ottawa
One Is Enough Says Georgia Farmer Employs Fifteen
G L Hinson of Jeff Davis County Georgia says his farm runs with fifteen one horse farmers. He notes most are in good shape and that they work from January to January with no unemployment trouble in winter.
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G. L. Hinson
Jeff Davis County
Georgia
Hinson
Quotes on farming and policy echo the Congressional Record
A collage of opinions frames farming prosperity, congress as a pivotal moment, and critics note the Congressional Record as scarcely read. Figures like Elmer Sexauer Representative Cannon Judge Muse and Theodore Goldsmith are cited amid aphorisms on agriculture and industry.
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Great Commercial Center
L. G. Elliott
LaSalle Extension University
LaSalle
Hall
Baukhage
National Farm
British Isles
Elmer Sexauer
Brookings Institution
Congress
Cannon
Missouri
Judge Muse of
Dallas
Theodore Goldsmith
Almenee
Congressional Record
America
George Suimpion
Daniel F. O’brien
Rome
Massachusettts Avenue
Hancock
Harvard Bazar
Cambridge
Edward J. Donahue
Massachusetts Ave
Ola
Carver St
Boston
Boylston Se
DEV
Business Man
Consult
Joseph F. Higgins Co., Inc
Mass. Ave
Cambirk Ya Electricians
Trowbridge
Chas. H. Fisher & CO
Brookline Street
J. Frank Facey
Prospect Street
Clark & Reid CO
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A. Anastasi
River ST. Wear Central
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