... relatives of an old family in Barrowford. Currency. Far more important than the number of looms per weaver, and even the Gold Standard, is the price of silver, which has steadily advanced during the last few days. I am surprised that the leading manufacturers ...

... confidence anyone else. No one believed, lent abroad; that would get back. We must recognise that with the credit system the Gold Standard system, which underlay it, had broken down, because three-quarters the gold had been absorbed by a handful of nations. ...

... reopened generally very quiet, with a rather unsettled feeling, incidental to the Government's decision in regard to the gold standard and the rise in the Bank Rate to G per cent. This was clearly reflected in some of the commodity markets, particularly ...

... Nuts, slacks and smalls quiet and easy at rate.. DONCASTER. Business is on the quiet Mlle. The unsettlement caused by the gold standard decision has tended to make buyers hesitate, but a view prevails that this tendency will be altered and that there will ...

... completely in the purpose for which they were formed, that purpose, according their own , declarations, was to keep on the Gold; Standard. had not kept the Gold So far from that, were off gold, and in the three weeks futile effort which the Government had ...

... the electors heeded them to-morrow, : our throughout the world would collapse like a house of cards. The suspension the gold standard, so far from removing the necessity for the Economy Bill, has intensified it. The work of national restori-j tion has been ...

... the profiteering down at Nice and Monte Carlo and Mentone has been simply abominable in its effrontery. Even before the gold standard was abandoned —that is to say, on Thursday and Friday last—the exchange was many points lower on the Cote d'Azur than in ...

... and that the suspension the gold standard became necessary He assured the House that the country could face the position with calmness (Pages 7 and 11) Mr Snowden broadcasting last night the suspension of the gold standard declared that the pound would ...

... freight market has obviously been overshadowed by recent developments in hinancial conditions. The abandonment of the gold standard by Great Britain has had the effect of adding difficulties the carrying out of eharteriug negotiations. This particularly ...

... Daghladet. The Minister adds that the Swedish Government have had no reason to go into the question of suspending the gold standard. Expenditure is being strictly limited, and there is no reason to sec the position in a black light. the close of the last ...

... repairs and survey, Ike. Smith Wales does a good amount of shiprepairing work on foreign account, but the su?peirion of the gold standard at the opening of the week, although creating a considerable amount of discussion, was not looked upon us an unfavourable ...

... Britain’s temporary suspension of the gold standard as likely to iniprove economic conditions both in Great Britain and elsewhere in the world So far as the United States is concerned the suspension of the gold standard is expected to cause stronger competition ...