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IMPROVEMENT IN STERLING. Exchange Difficulties for Importers. CHAMBER’S STAND. Norway Leaves the Gold Standard. ..

... IMPROVEMENT IN STERLING. Exchange Difficulties for Importers. CHAMBER’S STAND. Norway Leaves the Gold Standard. After the slump of last week the value the pound improved on Saturday in both New York and Paris, and though slight depreciations were recorded ...

INDUSTRY’S Q Gold Standard Suspension Effects. NEED OF TARIFF. Stimulation of Iron and Steel Trade. (From Our ..

... INDUSTRY’S Q Gold Standard Suspension Effects. NEED OF TARIFF. Stimulation of Iron and Steel Trade. (From Our Correspondent.) MIDDLESBROUGH, Tuesday, The effects of the suspension of the Gold Standard are being watched very closely in the import and export ...

BRITISH BUDGET

... of gold by the Bank England. The Bill itself can be explained in a very few words. Under the Gold Standard Act, 192.5. which brought Britain on the gold standard after it had been suspended from about the beginning of the war—under this Act the Bank of ...

A RUSSIAN IDEA

... A RUSSIAN IDEA. The Soviet Prose says Great Britain’s departure from tho gold standard is not only a crushing blow for the world’s bourgeoisie, but a defeat for the Labour party and for Mr, Henderson and his Trade Union Council, who have placed country ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 489 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SIR JOHN SIMON

... its means it was hoped to keep on the Gold Standard. It was therefore tempting to the irresponsibles—(Opposition cries of “Oh”) —out- the House—(laughter)—to retort that exactly seven days afterwards the Gold Standard was suspended. The plain question now ...

BRITAIN’S SECOND ANCHOR

... proceeded, “ Britain was held by two anchors. It could not plunge into conomic chaos for these two anchors. One anchor was the gold standard. We are still 'eft with the other anchor of a resolute deterujjnation to destore our financial stability, duty is to do ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRITAIN’S SECOND LINE OF TRENCHES. '

... means it was hoped to keep on the gold standard. It was therefore tempting to the irresponsible —(Opposition cries of ”) —outside the Ilousc—(laughter)—to retort that exactly se\en # days afterwards the gold standard was Ponded. The plain question now ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 617 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

COST OF LIVING

... into being to maintain the gold standard. Within a fortnight they were proposing to destroy the very fabric they were designed to build. The Opposition could not refuse second reading to the Bill. We wore now off the gold standard and it djd not appear to ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AN ALDERMAN’S VIEW

... other galleries.” EXPORT TRADE HOPES. EFFECT OF SUSPENSION OF GOLD STANDARD ON STEEL INDUSTRY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) MIDDLESBROUGH, Monday, The effect of the suspension of tho gold standard upon the steel industry was the principal topic of conversation ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FILLIP TO EXPORTS

... that it was quite likely that the first effect of going off the gold standard would to give temporary fillip certain export trades. But it was also certain that if remained off the gold standard the purchasing power of the pound would be reduced, and the ...

SAFETY FROM INFLATION

... was that a State which maintained the Gold Standard had in that very fact a guarantee against great inflation. The fact that it had been found necessary to withdraw from the impregnable fortress the Gold Standard only placed upon them a new obligation ...