5 MAY 1939, page 40

Finance And Investment

THE City has taken the Simon and the Hitler hurdles in good style, but having done so is looking round again as anxious and puzzled as before. For it is already clear that last......

Conscription Gains And Losses

The Government's conscription plan is obviously a " bull point " for the makers of boots and uniforms and for the builders of barracks, but is less pleasant news for the......

Imperial Chemicals Profits

Year by year Imperial Chemical Industries fOrtifies its position among the select group of undertakings which, except in abnormally depressed conditions, may be relied on to......

The Foreign Investment Problem

Obviously from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's cryptic replies to questions in the House of Commons, White- hall has no intention just yet of clarifying its neatly expressed "......