20 OCTOBER 1939, page 40

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UNIT TRUST EXPERIENCE I see that one of the unit trusts, the Orthodox, has announced that the public has invested more heavily in its sub-units in the first five weeks of war......

An Industrial Issue

While nobody disputes the Government's prior claims on the new capital market for the purposes of its huge borrowing programme, it is good to see an aperture still available for......

Finance And Investment

There was unconcealed disappointment when the Birmingham Small Arms Company cut its dividend from o per cent to 6 per cent. The decision was the exact contrary of general......

In Order To Economise Paper, The Quantity Of News- Papers

and other journals supplied to newsagents on the usual sale-or-return basis has now to be seriously restricted. Readers of The Spectator are therefore urged to place a regular......