... NOW WE ARE OFF THE GOLD STANDARD to sell the same article for 4s. 6d. It will be seen that the American would have got the business because he could sell at a lower price than his English competitor. INDUSTRIES BENEFIT Now, however, that we are off the ...

... company sells. They realise that with Britain oil the gold standard and the cheaper. NOW is the time to capture markets. They have set out to capture them. Otker countries may go Off the gold standard, too, but Britain has the start. Coal and Steel I hear ...

... How .We'AVi-.Alt . . By . . . BERNARD FALK ALREADY people who have only the haziest idea of what going off the gold standard means for Britain are beginning to ask themselves pertinent questions: How am I affected? Will it ccst more to live? What am ...

... determined to win back trade. And now is his opportunity. When Britain was on the Gold Standard. British goods abroad were dear ; now that we are off the Gold Standard, our goods are cheap—so cheap in France, Germany and elsewhere that they can compete ...

... therefore the moment appears an opportune one to explain simply what it all means. THE GOLD STANDARD Now, as I have explained on previous occasions, being on the gold standard meant that the pound sterling had a definite gold value. That is to say, an ounce ...

... Royal Assent I have heard the question asked, How could the Gold Standard Bill he rushed through Parliament in one day and receive the Royal Assent when Parliament was silting in London and the King was in Scotland? ...

... the Cold Standard. Week \ s are drawing in, start where they begin. * blonde is now the Lade for women's hair. off the gold standard. Peter Gibson is now at the Wimbledon Theatre in Bitter Sn-eet. ...

... Exchange had been open for 14 years in an alarming manner. What had caused this? Mainly the fear that we should go of the gold standard and that as a result the pound would crash. Anticipation was indeed worse than realisation. In tact in the City it always ...

... sensational fluctuations on Friday at the opening of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange on a report that japan was going o p t h e Gold Standard. Hean y elling set in by cotton firms with Japanese interests, causing a drop of 43 points. Another contributory cause ...

... have meant that gold would have to be shipped. Our supply of gold could not have stood the strain. so we went off the gold standard. Now that we are off the standard, Y divided by X will not be the lowest point to which the pound can fall. SUPPLY AND ...

... accepting that view. How unreal the whole business has been, how artificial the sob-stuff about the danger of going off the Gold Standard, can be seen by the overnight change of tone in the newspapers and in Mr. Snowden's broadcast. ...

... question leapt to the mind of every citizen when, last Monday, the Government announced the decision to depart from the Gold Standard. The question is made the more insistent by the Government's determination to strike at the unemployed while mitigating ...