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The Coal Mines Bill In So Far As The New

Coal Mines Bill prolongs the 7i-hour day until the seven coal-producing countries ratify their Geneva agreement for a 7k-hour day, the measure averts an imminent crisis. But for......

The Prince And The Farmers There Was Sound Sense In

the Prince of Wales' address to the farmers at the Bath and West Show at Yeovil last week. Speaking as a farmer, he urged that they must rearrange the selling side of their......

History In The Making The Correspondence Columns Of The...

fulfil a useful function this week in enabling an important gap in recent political history to be filled. Attention has been called by Lord Beaverbrook's recent book to the......

The Derby

The Derby was won last Wednesday by Mr. Walls' April the Fifth, who, with others, beat the hottest favourite since the late Lord Rosebery's Cicero won. This was Orwell, known......

Free Trade In Art The President Of The Royal Academy

has asked the Import Duties Advisory Committee to recommend that works of art should be placed on the free list. A few years ago it would have seemed incredible that such a......

Damming The Zuyder Zee

The Dutch are past-masters in the art of wresting land from the sea. But the enclosure of the Zuydcr Zee by a twenty-mile dam, which was completed last Saturday, Marks the......

Pooling Railway Traffic Both The Railways And The Public...

benefit by schemes for pooling receipts from competitive traffic, such as the L.M.S. and the L.N.E.R. have put before the Ministry of Transport. The two companies propose,......

Rank Rate 21 Per Cent., Changed From 8 Per Cent.

on May 12th, 1932. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101,1, - ; on Wednesday week, 101 ? ; a year ago, 10212. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1001 ; On......