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Trafalgar V. Nelson

rrhere is a Nelson touch to the Peninsu- lar and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, incorporated in 1840 by charter of Queen Victoria. It wins its battles at the cost of its......

I Ii

City and Black market T he National Stock Labour Scheme is getting a touch of the Felixstowes. Desirable as it may be, on broad social grounds, to confine all business in......

Vol Au Vent

A kind friend in the Treasury has come up with a copy of F.F. Bovet's French Conversation for English Travellers. This, he says, will explain (and to foreigners , too) what is......

Boom And Bust

D own the transatlantic cable growled a familiar voice, deeper than the ocean: 'We have a disaster on our hands.' Eliot Janeway, sage emeritus of Wall Street and Washington,......