... maelstrom during the week-end, that the effort to shore up the pound sterling by balancing the Budget had failed, and that the gold standard had been temporarily abandoned. Mr Arthur Henderson has suggested that as the immediate purpose of the National Government ...

... the decision to go off the gold standard made the swift passage of the Finance Bill more vital than even was before. He said that whatever might be the importance of balancing the Budget when the country was on the gold standard, it was even more necessary ...

... their significance acquires added weight at this moment. We are hearing of the flight of the £ and the flopping of the gold standard. Aberdeen granite is one of the last things on earth likelv to be endowed with wings.- and the people who have built themselves ...

... 16/11 (17/4) Home. 17/3 (18/9) Geneva. 16/8 U6/IOI2) Madrid, (37/) South Africa's Gold Standard. I hear the argument that country after coutry will go off the gold standard following the example of Great Britain, and that neither the United States nor Franco ...

... demand, but to conform with the improvement in the value of the peso. An adjustment of prices consequent upon dropping the gold standard was made in many directions,! and was reflected particularly in the shares companies having revenue-producing assets abroad ...